"double punishment" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a noun phrase that is used to describe any kind of vindictive retribution that involves more than one punishment being imposed for a wrongdoing. For example, "The thief received a double punishment for their crime - a fine and a jail sentence."
Many retributivists resist the idea that past convictions should matter, on the grounds that having been punished already, more severe punishment for the next wrong would effectively constitute double punishment for the first (Fletcher 2000: 462; Singer 1979: ch. 5).
This is a double punishment.
"It prevents double punishment," Feldman said.
No problem of double punishment exists in this case.
"Immigrants with criminal convictions essentially receive a double punishment," Das told me.
But imprisonment for many old, disabled people can amount to a double punishment.
For many people, especially those who committed a crime some time ago, it can feel like a double-punishment.
Though setting aside the shorter concurrent sentence imposed upon the wife for receiving, the Court of Appeals left standing a ten-year prison term for larceny, double the punishment that had been imposed upon the husband for the identical offense.
"Some Saudis agree with her being lashed for being with a male that wasn't a relative," said Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, international news editor at Jeddah-based Arab News, "but most feel that doubling her punishment on appeal was unfair.
The vindictive brutality of throwing stones just small enough to make sure the victim suffers before dying, the extremism of a death sentence for the alleged crime of adultery, the double-jeopardy punishment and retroactive charges dumped on her by the Iranian justice system -- these all combined to fuel global outrage and depict in full view the grotesque perversion of justice Sakineh has faced.
And, should reformers have looked into some of the sad history of dysfunctional testing before doubling down punishment-driven reforms?
