61.   The sentences were reduced to life imprisonment after the Supreme Court made the death penalty illegal.

62.   The sentence was later reduced to five months, possibly because Pastor Vila was converting large numbers of prisoners in Camaguey provincial prison.

63.   The sentences could be reduced in half, with good behavior and study.

64.   The Supreme Court reduced his sentence to three years and nine months.

65.   To avert deportation, a Gwinnett Superior Court judge reduced his sentence, a tactic other metro Atlanta judges have done in similar cases.

66.   Two weeks later, Francisco says, his sentence was reduced, and he was released from prison.

67.   When Bush protested, the sentence was reduced to two years, then nothing.

68.   When convicted for bank fraud by the Manhattan DA, the young man offered to sing to reduce his sentence.

69.   Over the last five years, President Hosni Mubarak has offered amnesty or reduced sentences to extremists who renounced violence.

70.   Other changes to the criminal law will help fight against corruption, stiffen guidelines on reducing sentences and make sure that punishments fit the crime, Zhou said.