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A juvenile court in the Paris suburb of Creteil late Wednesday said it had sentenced two of the men, who were 15 years old at the time, to 10 years in jail.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

In his summary, Mr Justice Baker stated that trial Judge William Mousley KC had sentenced the gang "on the basis that a man called Goran Jalal… was the leading figure in the conspiracy".

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

It was the first time a New Zealand court had sentenced a person to prison for the rest of their life.

From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2022

As Salon wrote in a 2012 interview with Rushdie, a BBC reporter called the writer and asked "How does it feel" now that the Ayatollah Khomeini had sentenced him to death?

From Salon • Aug. 15, 2022

Sixteen years earlier, on August 20, 1947, a U.S.- led war tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, had sentenced seven Nazi doctors to death by hanging.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot