6 sentences with “penalty”

After hearing my testimony about the time he attacked me, he recommended the death penalty.

Research has shown that while 75 per cent of the American public is in favour of the death penalty, 50 per cent of journalists oppose it.

That article sets the maximum penalty for almost any kind of demonstration against the Soviet government: ten years in prison, plus five years in exile, often in Siberia.

Some US states have the death penalty, while others do not. However, in exceptional situations, the federal state exercises its sovereign power by calling on its citizens, not in defence of its territory, but in defence of the highest interests of the nation.

By its conclusion, the Congress of Vienna had redrawn the map of Europe with the aim of preventing France from ever again threatening the balance of power. But unlike the conference that ended World War I a century later, the Congress of Vienna did not impose a huge penalty on the aggressor.

In 1521 Luther was tried at the Diet of Worms, the official meeting of princes of the Holy Roman Empire, where Emperor Charles V ordered him to recant. Luther refused and was declared an "outlaw" by the emperor, stipulating that no subject of the Empire should offer Luther food or water, and suffering no legal penalty in the event that Luther was killed.