Sentence examples for punishments clause from inspiring English sources

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.

The convention did adopt a "cruel and unusual punishments" clause, but there is no reason to believe that it afforded New Yorkers any more rights than the Eighth Amendment to the federal Constitution, which, at the time, did not apply to the states, and which banned only torturous methods of execution, not executions themselves.

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).

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".

The game also ended a stretch of 14 games in which the Devil Rays played only the Yankees and the Red Sox, a schedule that violates the "cruel and unusual punishment" clause of the Constitution.

Last year the Florida Supreme Court held that executing an individual who was under 17 at the time of his crime violated the cruel or unusual punishment clause of that state's constitution.

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".

It is possible that this new version of the bill may nix the capital punishment clause, according to The Times.

Last year, The European Commission triggered a punishment clause called Article 7 against Poland — citing the government's treatment of its judiciary and moves to suppress an independent press.

The Supreme Court this week upheld Kentucky's use of lethal injection, rejecting the claim that it violates the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause.