commencement of the sentence | start of the sentence

evening game [ evening contest | evening match | night game | night contest | night match | twilight game | twilight contest | twilight match ]

penalty [ punishment | sentence | Punishment(STW) ]

reduction of sentence

beginning-of-tape mark | beginning-of-tape marker

indeterminate sentence [ sentence of detention for an indeterminate period ]

dismal start [ slow start | terrible start ]

Office for the Execution of Sentences and Measures

short-term custodial sentence | short custodial sentence

Ms. Paula Kingston (Counsel, Youth Justice, Department of Justice): Basically, what it says is that if a youth has two youth sentences, you add them up, and the beginning of the sentence is the start date of the first sentence and the end date is the end date of the last sentence.

Are you talking about early in the sentence, that if someone has ten years, for example, we should start early on in that ten-year period?

Urges the Council to update the guidelines on the death penalty, in order to support all activities aimed at full implementation of the General Assembly resolution, which inter alia calls upon all States that still maintain the death penalty to respect international standards that provide safeguards guaranteeing the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty, in particular the minimum standards set out in the annex to Economic and Social Council Resolution 1984/50 of 25 May 1984; points out that the resolution provides the Secretary-General with information relating to the use of capital punishment and observance of the ...[+++]safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty and seeks to progressively restrict the use of the death penalty and reduce the number of offences for which it may be imposed; further points out that the resolution ends by calling on all United Nations Member States to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty;

Welcomes the abolition of the death penalty in Albania on 25 March 2007 (for all crimes); in Kyrgyzstan on 27 June 2007; in Rwanda on 26 July 2007; in the State of New Jersey (in the United States) on 13 December 2007; and in Uzbekistan on 1 January 2008; expresses its disquiet at the possibility that the death penalty might again start to be enforced in Guatemala; urges the Guatemalan Government, on the contrary, to genuinely commit itself to the universal moratorium on the death penalty; welcomes the decision by China to have all death penalty cases reviewed by the Supreme Court, but remains concerned that China still carries out the greatest number of executions worldwide; condemns the practising of the death penalty in Belarus, ...[+++]which runs counter to European values; condemns the Iranian regime's increasing use of capital punishment; is very concerned that the Iranian regime still sentences to death defendants under the age of 18;