1.   Are women sentenced to be nurturing and passive?

2.   But some argue that women are sentenced more harshly than men, especially in drug cases, and especially in light of their lower propensity for violence and recidivism.

3.   Instead, the judge sentenced each women to three years probation.

4.   Statistics show women rarely are sentenced to death.

5.   Police raided a village and detained three Islamic clerics for illegally sentencing a woman to be flogged Friday on a charge of adultery, an official said.

6.   A British woman was sentenced to two years in a Barbados prison for smuggling cocaine out of the Caribbean nation inside her toiletry kit.

7.   A British woman was sentenced to six years in jail by a Moscow regional court Thursday for smuggling cocaine into Russia.

8.   A British woman was sentenced to two years in a Barbados prison for trying to smuggle cocaine out of the Caribbean nation inside her toiletry kit.

9.   A regional court in southern Ukraine sentenced a woman to nine years in prison for large-scale drug smuggling, a news report said Wednesday.

10.   A Sudanese court has sentenced nine women to death on convictions for drug trafficking, the daily Al-Engaz al-Watani said Wednesday.