The history of Mandatory Minimum Sentencing (penalties) according to the web, in the early 18th century, congress has used Mandatory minimum penalties since it first present the first federal penal (a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishments). Mandatory minimum penalties has always been important for serious offensive, for instance murder or treason, it's also important to address immediate problems and exigencias. The Constitution permitted Congress to established criminal offenses and established the punishments for those offenses. First comprehensive, created by congress, of federal offenses with the passage of the 1790 Crimes Act, which it …show more content…
Increasing up to 10th, the number of offenses that qualified mandatory minimum penalty, which involves piracy offenses specified four different forms of criminal conduct. Treason, murder and piracy remain punishable by a mandatory penalty today ( 2017 ). Left with 13 of the crimes were punished by the meaning of been in prison with a maximum of up to one year (three offenses ), three years (seven offenses ), or seven years (three offenses ). The remaining three crimes were punishable by fines and corporal punishment or left to the court’s