As Dwyer survived, Cannon escaped the death sentence, which was commuted to penal servitude for life.
The principals in this conspiracy, Wagner and Bateman, were sentenced to penal servitude for life, the others to twenty and ten years.
Two of the seven, Santos and Marsolino, were reprieved, and their sentences commuted to penal servitude for life; the remaining five were executed in one batch.
John Flood and Edward Duffy were then sentenced each to fifteen years of penal servitude, and Cody to penal servitude for life.
The government shrank from carrying out the barbarous sentence of the law, and his punishment was changed to the still more painful, if less appalling fate, of penal servitude for life.
The commutation of Burke's sentence necessitated the like course in all the other capital cases, and M'Afferty's doom was changed to penal servitude for life.
The occupier of the "stationer's" shop and others were subsequently convicted and sentenced to penal servitude for life.
Continuing, the brigade-major read: "But in consideration of the prisoner's youth Her Majesty has been pleased to commute the sentence to penal servitude for life.
Welsh was tried before this court for stabbing Sergeant Roe, was found guilty and sentenced to penal servitude for life.
But in that case you did not run the risk, my friend, of penal servitude for life, eh?
Commutation to penal servitude for life, or for twenty years.
Will it be a solution if I succeed with my appeal, if the sentence of death is commuted to penal servitude for life or for twenty years?
Commutation to penal servitude for life, or imprisonment for twenty years!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penal servitude for life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
