Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Statutes: An Overview of Legislation in the 106th Congress

Doyle, Charles

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Criminal justice;    Sentences (Criminal procedure);    Capital punishment;   

RP-ID  :  RS20307
RP-ID  :  RS20307_2001Jan11

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses federal mandatory minimum sentencing statutes, which demand that execution or incarceration follow criminal conviction. They cover drug dealing, murdering federal officials, and using a gun to commit a federal crime. They circumscribe judicial sentencing discretion. They have been criticized as unthinkingly harsh and incompatible with a rational sentencing guideline system; yet they have also been embraced as hallmarks of truth in sentence and a certain means of incapacitating the criminally dangerous.