Sentence examples for punishment clause from inspiring English sources

The Telegraph's Anna Isaac points out that the so-called transition "punishment clause" is still part of the text.

He also voted with the majority in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) to uphold Georgia's prohibition against sodomy (though he wrote that severe punishment might violate the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause).

The proposed rules are arrived at by considering the constraints placed upon prosecutors (but not defense attorneys), and rights conferred upon capital defendants (but not the state) by the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause.

The exception in the 13th Amendment, known as the punishment clause, still stands nationwide; Dickerson said to his knowledge, Colorado is one of the first states — if not the first — to try to remove it from its constitution.

The EU has retained a version of the proposed "punishment clause" that could be used to penalise the UK during the transition if it were seen to break single market rules.

"As long as it remains in the Constitution, the punishment clause is an offensive vestige of the legacy of dehumanizing and often racist practices in the American criminal justice system," Liske wrote.

Backers of the food bill argue that it will plug leaks in India's public food distribution system through "vigilance committees," punishment clauses and by other measures that empower citizens to better protect their rights.

Alito responded to each of Sotomayor's points, but primarily made a different argument: that the Constitution's cruel-and-unusual-punishment clause "does not require the avoidance of all risk of pain".

O'Connor's opinion, Thomas said, had expanded the cruel-and-unusual-punishment clause "beyond all bounds of history and precedent" and was "yet another manifestation of the pervasive view that the Federal Constitution must address all ills in our society.…The Eighth Amendment is not, and should not be turned into, a National Code of Prison Regulation".

In a 1958 Supreme Court case on another matter, the majority had agreed "the cruel and unusual punishments clause must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society".

In a 1989 case in Kentucky, the Supreme Court held that executing a juvenile offender did not violate "common standards of decency," or the cruel and unusual punishments clause of the Eighth Amendment.