1.   He called for more mandatory sentences and the death penalty.

2.   He parents wept as the judge delivered the mandatory sentence.

3.   The trial judge, Caulfield J., imposed the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.

4.   This is of course the mandatory sentence for a person convicted of murder.

5.   To suggest this child died because of mandatory sentence is grotesque.

6.   Also on Tuesday, the U.S. House approved a bill that would send financial incentives to states that impose tough mandatory sentences on criminals who carry guns.

7.   And mandatory sentences are so grotesquely harsh that some prosecutors and judges get around them by taking pleas to less serious offenses.

8.   At a minimum, that means changing the drug laws enacted under Gov. Nelson Rockefeller that impose long mandatory sentences on many low-level, nonviolent drug offenders.

9.   Brayford had also applied for an exemption from the mandatory sentence.

10.   Brazill faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted of either form of first-degree murder.