As such, sometimes the accused bring up certain mitigating factors.

Don t we criticize reduced sentences in so called honor crimes all the time? Is that against the law?

I had been unaware, he thought, of some extenuating factors for the destruction I witnessed.

Countries qualifying for a PCL would have to meet some, but relatively minimal and unobtrusive, conditions.

Defences and mitigating circumstances available will depend on the nationality and or the place where a crime is committed.

She was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility in the deaths of toddlers Martin Brown and Brian Howe.

For now, it looks very much as if, come 2015, the world s leaders will have failed to keep their (watered down) promises.

She also expressed concern about the apparent leniency of penalties for extremely serious offences such as trafficking, the sexual abuse of minors and incest.

Ms. Cinar (Turkey) said that, as part of the legal reform exercise, leniency provisions for custom or honour killings, which were essentially synonymous, had been abolished.

(b) The Jordanian Penal Code No. 16 of 1960 includes a mitigating circumstances clause, whereby the perpetrator of an honour crime may be immune from punishment if it is shown that the victim committed an adulterous act.

To be sure, pro active anti poverty programs, loose credit, a commodity export boom, and heavy government spending (financed by an equally heavy tax burden) lifted millions out of poverty.

48. In paragraph 495 of the report, the Working Group notes that most treaties are silent about defences and extenuating circumstances and that no rules of international criminal law on these matters have evolved.

For now, it looks very much as if, come 2015, the world s leaders will have failed to keep their (watered down) promises. That means that they will be responsible for permitting the needless deaths, every year, of millions of people.

While extenuating circumstances might sometimes prevent Member States from complying with their obligation to pay their assessed contributions in full, on time and without conditions, detailed explanations of those circumstances must be submitted to the Committee on Contributions within the specified time frame.

Thailand replied that the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence may not be sentenced to death because section 78 of the Thai Penal Code allows extenuating circumstances to be taken into account by the Court, which may if it thinks fit, reduce the punishment to be inflicted on the offender by not more than one half .

Ms. Akşit (Turkey) said that her country's efforts to suppress honour and custom killings were reflected in the abolition of leniency and the severe penalty life imprisonment prescribed by the Penal Code.

(a) Mitigating circumstances, in particular for persons who, having been implicated in the commission of an enforced disappearance, effectively contribute to bringing the disappeared person forward alive or make it possible to clarify cases of enforced disappearance or to identify the perpetrators of an enforced disappearance

(a) Mitigating circumstances, inter alia for persons who, having been implicated in the commission of an enforced disappearance, effectively contribute to bringing the disappeared person forward alive or make it possible to clarify cases of enforced disappearance or to identify the perpetrators of an enforced disappearance

What are the key words? And what judging by everything from words such as must or immediately to slang or profanity, to softeners such as if you don't mind and please, and text written in ALL CAPS is the tone?