Sentence examples for state punishment from inspiring English sources

The Social Security Advisory Committee is concerned that such state punishment will mean a sector of the population becomes completely dislocated from mainstream society, living like creatures at the very bottom of the dark depths of the sea.

It would consider the effects on staff and, importantly, the local communities where these prisons are based, as well as the fundamental moral issue of whether state punishment should ever be profitable.

The judgment, announced on Wednesday night, renders ineffective a 1986 law known as the Expiry Law of Demanded State Punishment, which has given impunity to the Uruguayan armed forces for human rights violations committed during the dictatorship there, according to the Center for Justice and International Law.

This volume contributes to current debates on the criminal justice system by filling a crucial gap in scholarship with ten original essays by both established and up-and-coming historians on the topics of crime and state punishment in the Jim Crow era.

In the familiar account of African Americans' historical shift "from plantation to prison," we have forgotten how, for a century before the Civil War, state punishment affirmed black political membership in the breach, while a thriving popular crime literature provided early America's best-known models of individual black selfhood.

From the treatment of mental illness, to the broader study of medical classification, to the history of state punishment and discipline, to the study of modern sexuality, he developed a theory wherein power structures provide the framework for much, if not all, of social life.

The ruling is a clear warning to other states that they, too, are barred from writing their own immigration laws, including imposing state punishments on the undocumented.

Indeed, tens of millions died at the hand of the Soviet state, through punishment, carelessness, deprivation.

In 1987 the Supreme Court declared state capital punishment constitutional despite racial bias.

The New York State capital punishment statute, which originally prompted her to rally others against the death penalty, was overturned by the state's highest court.

"But God's freedom overcame state capital punishment and even death itself.