Sentence examples for punishment rape from inspiring English sources

Research also demonstrates that trauma associated with abusive prison conditions, corporal punishment, rape and persistent ill treatment have significant consequences on a child's long term cognitive, social, emotional and physical development.

(The Court struck down capital punishment for rape of adult women in that case. In 2008, it ruled that capital punishment for child rape is unconstitutional).

Back story: Public outrage after a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge sentenced a Stanford University student to six months in jail for sexual assault led California lawmakers to respond with calls to increase punishment for rape offenders.

Manuel received a sentence of fifteen years, his punishment for rape.

Legal experts in India are debating increasing the maximum punishment for rape in India, which could include the death penalty.

"Letting rapists walk free after making them cut grass has to be the world's worst punishment for rape," she said.

Poetry has been charged with "aestheticizing," thus being complicit in, the violent realities of power, of practices like collective punishment, torture, rape and genocide.

The brutal incident shocked both India and the world, and led to a series of amendments to incorporate much stricter punishment for rape and other sexual crimes in the country.

The United States Supreme Court prohibited capital punishment for rape in a 1977 case, Coker v. Georgia in which the victim, while only 16 years old, was married and had the legal status of an adult.

But recent research has suggested that the crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in eastern Europe cannot be brushed off quite so easily, and that on the front they did not usually fear punishment for rape.

For example, the panchayat's decree in Meerwala Jatoi that the punishment of rape be carried out by four men echoes the aberrations in Pakistani law introduced by Gen. Zia ul-Haq, whose military rule lasted from 1977 to 1988, in his attempts to Islamicize the country.