Tom Robinson's sentence is never actually revealed in the book. A sentence is the term in prison or the announcement of the punishment. We do know he was taken to a prison because we hear second hand about how he was shot at.
I assume you are asking about the verdict (the decision the jury came to) which was guilty. The other editors have addressed that. If you do indeed mean the term sentence, I think what's important about it is that he never got to serve it. Before there was even a chance for appeal, before the sentence was revealed, Tom was killed. I guess you could say that his sentence ended up being the death penalty unjustly applied. This is important because it demonstrates the deep seeded racism at work in the South in the 30s.
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