Sentence examples for illegal punishment from inspiring English sources

Others were charged with meting out an illegal punishment, since Mr Hung's offence should have earned merely a reprimand.

sc23288 says: Suppose the victim asks for an illegal punishment, or something vengeful which does not fit the crime due to emotional involvement?

Feng Zhenghu and Chen's cases are both extreme, but they are on a continuum of illegal punishment and detentions for activists that is very, very common in China".

"The fact that defendants have already been subjected to cruel and likely illegal punishment," Mr. Ruhnke said, "becomes a powerful argument against inflicting the ultimate punishment".

The pontiff also lashed out against the use of preventative detention, calling it "hidden, illegal punishment". He spoke against the criminal punishment of children and urged for the "special treatment" of elderly prisoners.

The "environment of daily harassment" was part of Israel's "illegal collective punishment and closure of Gaza".

We make sure nobody is really hurt". Yesterday, two medical human rights groups asked the Tel Aviv high court to outlaw the use of sound bombs on the grounds it amounts to illegal collective punishment and is detrimental to health.

Entire communities have been closed off, victims of illegal collective punishment.

While all of the various infractions are still technically illegal, the punishment citizens actually pay will change drastically, with a standardized set of fines staggered based on past history taking effect.

Since the November closures, leading aid figures have become increasingly outspoken about the responsibility the coalition bears for Yemen's humanitarian catastrophe, with Jan Egeland, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, saying in early November that he believed the shuttering of ports was "illegal collective punishment".

Defense attorney David Coombs is asking the court to dismiss all charges with prejudice due to alleged illegal pretrial punishment that he says his client was subjected to in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the US Constitution.