It also accused the police of carrying out random shootings and collective punishment.
The death penalty is also more common in some places than others: Texas imposes it about 40 times as often as New York, a state of comparable population and with similar crime problems.This random quality of capital punishment significantly undermines Mill's notion that the death penalty is justified, because it and it alone pays proper respect to the importance of human life.
The "strange fire" they bore was the fire of ambition, which prompted them to say, "When will these old men, our father and our uncle, die already so that we can take their place?" Whatever actually constituted the strange fire that brought about the demise of Nadav and Avihu, the Sages are certain that God did not mete out punishment at random.
Punishments are usually random.
"And if that means we have to test our players to prove that they're clean, we're going to do it -- which is why we and the players' association in the collective bargaining agreement have agreed on a performance-enhancing random testing program with severe punishments".
Day in, day out, these people were living in fear of random attack by the militia and punishment by the very authorities employed to protect them.
The saga of Fukushima-Daiichi follows the famous arc of the failed project: unwarranted enthusiasm followed by unmitigated disaster and then random retribution (search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and promotion of the uninvolved).
Any story with random magic and an arbitrary allotment of ascents and punishments can justly be called a fairy tale.
"The remedy is not random killing, use of force against civilians and collective punishment in all Iraq," he said.
Several governors have recently suggested a shift in emphasis from punishment to prevention, and the Supreme Court has rejected random drug tests twice this term, in cases involving pregnant women and highway checkpoints.
