| Brought to trial, he was condemned to death, immediately commuted to solitary confinement for life by De Gaulle. |
| But the Supreme Court sympathetically commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. |
| After thorough consideration, the Governor commuted the death sentences for two of the defendants to life in prison. |
| Earlier this year, the outgoing governor of Illinois commuted the sentences of all 167 inmates on the state's death row. |
| When they were condemned to gather firewood from hills, their punishment could be commuted to a payment of 300 coins per month. |
| Suspended death sentences in China often are commuted to life in prison if the convicts are deemed reformed. |
