Sentence examples for life punishment from inspiring English sources

In fairy tales, as in life, punishment is a limited deterrent to crime.

In real life, punishment without a valid reason will surely prompt retaliation.

By contrast, in real life punishments are often meted out only insofar as punishers are entitled to punish and punishees deserve to be punished.

"Good people die, bad people enjoy a good long life without punishment.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is conspicuously silent on two other issues that are just as important as abortion to Catholics who value all human life: capital punishment and pre-emptive war.

Ron Novick Orange, Conn., Oct. 22, 2004 • To the Editor: Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is conspicuously silent on two other issues that are just as important as abortion to Catholics who value all human life: capital punishment and pre-emptive war.

Specific details and events from the author's life – including punishment from teachers and social ostracism – suggest a fictionalized autobiography.

With no hope for a better life, their punishment is for failing to cooperate in their oppression, daring to resist, and refusing to accept their captivity quietly.

A non-capital trial would have diluted that argument, and allowed Tsarnaev to fade into obscurity, inside an anonymous prison cell, for the rest of his natural life; a punishment that is as slow and tedious as it is severe.

I understand the need to take a joke, but I'm much more scared by the real life capital punishment system, especially its history of mistaken convictions and executions.

Just last year, the government in Kenya was considering a new law that would stone gays and lesbians to death or imprison them for life as punishment for their sexuality.