Sentence examples for summary punishment from inspiring English sources
In some societies the penal arm of the state has reached individual men through secret denunciation followed by summary punishment.
77, 83, 32 L.Ed. 405, sanctioned summary punishment for 'direct contempts' committed in the 'presence' of the court.
Both policemen were in dicted only for depriving a citizen of his civil rights or inflicting summary punishment, and both remain on active police duty in Augusta.
Last year, of course, nine state highway patrolmen were acquitted of Federal charges of impos ing summary punishment on the three dead and 27 wounded blacks.
We note at the outset that appellants explicitly disavow making any direct attack on the Fire Marshal's power of summary punishment under § 3737.99(A).
But apart from the rule of law and public accountability, the police power to use force, engage in summary punishment, use covert surveillance, and to stop, search and arrest citizens, can be used to support dictatorial regimes and practices.
The act of 1831, however, materially modified that of 1789, in that it restricted the power of the courts to inflict summary punishments for contempt to certain specified cases, among which was misbehavior in the presence of the court, or misbehavior so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice.
Terrorists caught red-handed will soon receive speedy and summary capital punishment.
Ms. Inayatullah said the government was considering setting up a summary court to deliver quick punishment to those responsible for the rape.
The executions drew criticism from human rights groups and the European Union, which oppose capital punishment and the summary justice meted out to defendants in a special military court that allowed no right of appeal.
Experiments in ever more intrusive surveillance, stop-and-search powers, summary deportation and extradition, and even punishment without reasonable suspicion, charge or trial: all these were first attempted with foreigners, terror suspects and the unworthy poor.
