Sentence examples for expensive punishment from inspiring English sources

It proved an expensive punishment, as Ospreys rattled up 11 unanswered points in the eight minutes before the interval - and it was fly-half Davies who was the chief tormentor.

Prison is also the state's most expensive form of punishment.

There is no argument in favor of maintaining a barbaric, arbitrary and expensive system of capital punishment.

It is a cynical tactic no team admits to but helps turn a profit without subjecting expensive equipment to the punishment of a long race.

The public considers capital punishment too expensive and doesn't think of it as a deterrent to crime, he said.

The emotional appeal, researchers and legal experts said, has become common in recent decades, as studies have shown that capital punishment is expensive and fails to deter crime.

"Capital punishment is very expensive," he said, "so if you choose to spend money on capital punishment you are choosing not to spend it somewhere else, like policing".

Almost exactly a year after Ross returned to work from his three-month punishment, the most expensive phone call in broadcasting history has claimed it biggest victim.

Not so much because there might be (and often is) pain and suffering involved but because capital punishment is flawed, expensive, subject to manipulation, applied disproportionately to minorities, not an effective deterrent and, at the end of the day, irreversible.

Counties get a virtually bankrupt state to pick up a fat tab and "to maintain a very expensive and dysfunctional system of capital punishment," Mrs. Bienen wrote.

This prison-focused punishment system is wildly expensive, destructive to families and communities, and does not work.