Capital punishment was codified during British rule, with hanging as the chosen method, but recent decades of litigating and legislating limited the actual practice to "the rarest of rare cases".
The offense of treason, and the punishment thereof, were codified in consecutive sections of the Revised Statutes.
Margaret Love, a former Justice Department official who headed the committee, said all the punishments should be codified in one place and made part of sentencing, so that defendants, their lawyers and judges understand what is happening.
The Social Standards Committee was formed in the late 1920s by female students to provide codified guidance to their peers and to determine punishment for violations.
How long the government may make a citizen wait before allowing a return to the U.S. under some specific circumstances is not codified and thus can be used as a de facto seizure or punishment without raising a case publicly.
In Athenian history, Draco was a politician who codified the city-state's laws in the 7th century BC, but the punishments, though impartial, were resented as overly harsh.
Yet by prosecuting Noor for material support and conspiracy - vague offenses codified as war crimes years after Noor left Afghanistan - the United States is imposing ex post facto punishment on Noor and violating the universal principle of legality.
Father Divine's teachings were codified in 1936 in the "Righteous Government Platform," which called for an end to segregation, lynching, and capital punishment.
The season was already close to its end, so the punishment amounts to a relatively minor rebuke for the many male soccer players who have contributed to this codified team activity of demeaning their female counterparts over the last four years.
Eating schedules were codified.
That promise is codified in Title 13, a 1954 law that forbids Census employees for life from sharing such information; those who disobey face punishments of up to $250,000 fine and five years in prison.
