"The regime applies a collective punishment policy to make revenge on the population that are supportive of the revolution".
The country's courts apply a literal interpretation of medieval punishments described in the Koran and the Sunna, including occasionally cutting off the hands of thieves and more rarely stoning adulterers.
"Their leaders should ask themselves why they are still applying a cruel and inhumane punishment that the rest of the world is leaving behind".
"The government is resolved to track them down so that justice can apply to them a punishment equal to their crimes," a government spokesman said.
After Marler had dodged punishment for applying a forearm to the head of the prone Rob Evans during the England v Wales game – it was not felt to be a red card offence so he escaped on a technicality – surely the Six Nations' disciplinary machinery would at least ensure the player copped a modest sanction for abusing Lee?
This "may have reflected economic realities in an area where labor was scarce, or it may have stemmed from a reluctance to apply capital punishment to crimes feared to be rather common," wrote Oaks in 1978.
If, for example, your child does not clean his room even though he or she is required to do so and even though you gave a warning, then simply apply the punishment.
And critics of the school say that unlike the more widely known electroconvulsive therapy, which has been used successfully in cases of severe depression and is being used experimentally on severely autistic people, applying shock as a punishment is not widely supported by the scientific community.
But when the written law itself fails to give us a clear framework that allows juries to apply capital punishment to cases they deem the most morally culpable, we have a problem.
Although societies that practice shunning may apply the punishment for life, it is typically limited to a set period, which is often ended by another formal hearing or by evidence that the person has returned to acting in a socially responsible manner.
