Sentence examples for punishable crime from inspiring English sources

Homosexuality remained a punishable crime: 270 British soldiers and 20 officers were court-martialed for "acts of gross indecency".

How far away would we be from countries, in which homosexuality is a punishable crime, admitting such evidence in court?

Despite his sordid testimony many expect Strauss-Kahn to be acquitted, citing limited evidence pointing to a punishable crime.

This, after all, is the King who passed the law about putting trousers on cats and dogs, who made laughing too loudly a punishable crime.

If, on the other hand, the prescription reads "Take 50 to die", the doctor is guilty of incitement to commit suicide, usually a punishable crime.

Judge Tomasz Calkiewicz said that Poland could not extradite him on espionage charges because espionage against Germany is not a punishable crime in Poland.

In any case, the ICC has yet to pin down the fourth crime mentioned in its statute alongside war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide: the crime of "aggression".At a review conference next year, some will press for this charge to be added to the court's detailed sheet of punishable crimes.

The paper notes that the Commission's "proposals to make stalking and voyeurism punishable crimes" led to a debate in the parliament where some male legislators made "outright sexist statements".

The rest of the country followed suit, and civil harassment and stalking are now punishable crimes in all 50 states, and are grounds for a restraining order.

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court has since established both genocide and crimes against humanity as punishable crimes regardless of whether the perpetrators commit such crimes internally or externally.

According to the Crimes of War Project, rape has been a punishable war crime for centuries, but this has rarely been observed.