Appeals court says 28-year sentence is too lenient for Libyan militant convicted in Benghazi attack

A 28-year prison sentence is too lenient for a Libyan militant who was convicted of terrorism-related charges in the 2012 ...

Son of couple jailed in Iran "desperately worried" as stepdad's sentence extended

A man whose mother and stepfather are imprisoned in Iran tells CBS News "the hardest part is the uncertainty." ...
People

A Brother Fights for His Sister's Release from Prison in Emotional Trailer for 'The Sentence'

First-time filmmaker Rudy Valdez got extremely personal for his debut documentary, The Sentence. Nigel Smith is the Senior Movies News Editor for PEOPLE. He is an experienced culture editor and writer ...
The Tribune

Court of Appeal denies appeal for reduced sentence due to illness

Baptiste’s challenge to his prison terms, revoked the bail he had been granted on medical grounds and ordered him back to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services to complete his sentence. Jean ...
The New Yorker

How to Write a Sentence

Well, here you are, looking at this, trying, hoping, floundering, scrabbling, wishing, dying to find out the mystery of “how to” write a sentence. Or possibly you have tried write sentence and failed ...
NPR

Think You Know 'How To Write A Sentence'?

Most people know a good sentence when they read one, but New York Times columnist Stanley Fish says most of us don't really know how to write them ourselves. His new book, How To Write A Sentence: And ...
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies

Is this sentence in the Declaration of Independence really the greatest ever written?

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...