Sentence examples for penalty for rape from inspiring English sources

Politicians have called for the imposition of the death penalty for rape.

The penalty for rape in Qatar is life imprisonment and, under some circumstances, death.

The court banned the imposition of the death penalty for rape in 1977 and specifically for child rape in 2008.

(Besides, in Coker v. Georgia, the Supreme Court held that death is too severe a penalty for rape).

The penalty for rape in the kingdom is life imprisonment, but women who report any kind of sexual assault risk being charged with having illicit relations.

In 1977, as part of its wide-ranging re-examination of capital punishment, the Supreme Court prohibited the death penalty for rape.

Soon after the court ruled in 2008 on Kennedy v. Louisiana that the death penalty for raping a child was unconstitutional, a blogger pointed out that Congress allowed such a punishment for the same crime under military court-martial.

Immediately after announcing the lethal injection decision on Wednesday, the court turned to the argument in the Louisiana case on the constitutionality of the death penalty for raping a child.

WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court ruled last week that the death penalty for raping a child was unconstitutional, the majority noted that a child rapist could face the ultimate penalty in only six states — not in any of the 30 other states that have the death penalty, and not under the jurisdiction of the federal government either.

Afell later collaborated with the government to increase penalties for rape.

There will be fast-track courts set up, harsher penalties for rape introduced and a few other measures.