The concept of a "death sentence" came out as important in the local discourse on HIV, and with its reference to punishment and death it nurtured the fear of the virus and those who were suspected to be infected.
Bashir recently came under fire for suggesting that someone should "sh-t" in Sarah Palin's mouth, referencing a punishment for slaves, in response to something she had said about slavery.
The reference to the punishment is in connection with Cicero's (historically correct, and successful) endeavours to acquit Sextus Roscius of the charge of having murdered his own father.
On Sunday, it was the depiction of a sexually aroused, anatomically correct male donkey and references to capital punishment that nearly derailed an ambitious interpretation of the Handel opera "Semele," the tragic tale of what happens when a lustful god, a vengeful goddess and an impressionable young maiden are ensnared in a love triangle.
For example, with reference to the punishments of "stripes" and disqualification from office, Currie argues that: "These provisions suggest not only that Congress viewed neither of these punishments as cruel and unusual, but also that they did not understand impeachment to be the sole avenue for the future disqualification of current officeholders".
For example, Kyle (2012) summarizes, in a footnote, one of the contemporary relevant controversies in the following manner: Marcus Tullius Cicero, the renowned lawyer, orator and politician from the first century BCE, provides in his copious writings several references to the punishment of poena cullei, but none of the live animals documented within the writings by others from later periods.
(The classical formulation, conspicuous in Hobbes, for example, defines punishment by reference to imposing pain rather than to deprivations).
Indeed, literature can get very compelling when depicting crime and (sometimes) punishment, to reference the title of a certain Russian novel.
Future references to 'punishment' should therefore be read, unless otherwise specified, as references to legal or criminal punishment.
The cases referenced above illustrate how the punishment economy hurts women, but its influence pervades our whole society and the end result is more people trapped in a cycle of mass criminalization and incarceration.
