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But in 1909, Congress overhauled the federal penal code and excavated the 1870 statute, elevating election conspiracy from a misdemeanor punishable by $500-per-vote fine to a potential felony with a ten-year prison sentence.
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Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Advertisement Under the Tennessee penal code, Wallen’s three Class E felony charges carry a prison sentence of one to six years per count, probation and a fine.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government introduced a new criminal code in early July, replacing India’s 164-year-old colonial-era penal code.
—Samra Zulfaqar, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
The Election Commission had sought the party’s dissolution after a court earlier this year ruled that the group’s campaign for amending the royal insult law, also known as as Article 112 of the Thai penal code, amounted to an attempt to overthrow the kingdom’s constitutional monarchy.
—Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Anuchit Nguyen / Bloomberg, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
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Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Advertisement Under the Tennessee penal code, Wallen’s three Class E felony charges carry a prison sentence of one to six years per count, probation and a fine.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government introduced a new criminal code in early July, replacing India’s 164-year-old colonial-era penal code.
—Samra Zulfaqar, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
The Election Commission had sought the party’s dissolution after a court earlier this year ruled that the group’s campaign for amending the royal insult law, also known as as Article 112 of the Thai penal code, amounted to an attempt to overthrow the kingdom’s constitutional monarchy.
—Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Anuchit Nguyen / Bloomberg, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Penal code.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penal%20code. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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