Sentence examples for law punished from inspiring English sources

Qing Chinese law punished a master who killed his slave, and that punishment was more severe if the slave had done no wrong.

Most crimes committed by well-to-do citizens were, under Roman law, punished in part by heavy fines and confiscations.

Nevertheless, other companies continued to complain that the law punished them for making even routine repairs and discouraged them from expanding capacity to produce more electricity.

The law punished by fine or imprisonment anyone found guilty of bringing the president or Congress "into contempt or disrepute" or of exciting against them "the hatred of the good people of the United States," thereby stirring up "sedition".

Mr. Bopp said that the law punished people for exercising First Amendment rights and that its requirements were burdensome .To the extent that it requires reporting of contributors or people associated with the organization," he said, "that's an invasion of their privacy and it certainly chills First Amendment activity".

BANDA ACEH — The crowd hurled insults while the men winced their way through 83 lashes from a rattan cane on Tuesday as Indonesia's only province to implement Sharia law punished two young men for gay sex.

Criminal law punishes things people do, not things they do not do.

Provisions in a new Nebraska law punish those who forward an image but not its creator.

The law punishes teenage boys who tie up and abuse a stray cat.

–Should the law punish the person who created the Kerry-Fonda picture?

Changing tack, she reads from the gacaca statute: "The law punishes those who do not tell the truth".