Sentence examples for was not punishable from inspiring English sources

Article 11(1) of the Constitution states: "No person shall be punished for an act or omission which was not punishable by law when it was done or made, and no person shall suffer greater punishment for an offence than was prescribed by law at the time it was committed".

"But for more than two decades in between, Seale's crime was not punishable by death," Justice Stevens noted on Monday, saying that the Supreme Court should have decided whether Mr. Seale's case was subject to a five-year statute of limitations.

As part of their background work, league officials intend to speak to the relevant clubs about the tactics employed and felt it important to do so on the basis that whatever they heard was not punishable unless there was an official complaint.

When the media then delved further into the issue, stories started to emerge of common practice with a multitude of MPs not disclosing their financial benefactors, a practice which was not punishable under Finnish law.

But fraud, while a crime, is not punishable by death, said Mr. AlGasim, the retired judge.

Premarital sex is not punishable for non-Muslims, but it remains socially taboo.

"The actions are not punishable," a police spokesman, Norbert Gunkel, told The Associated Press.

Those who opposed Scientology in any way were called "suppressive persons," of whom Hubbard wrote: "A truly suppressive person or group has no rights of any kind, and actions taken against them are not punishable".

Michael Segalov, one of the students who went through the trial, said: "I have maintained throughout that participating in peaceful protest action is something to be encouraged, and is not punishable.

The Indonesian penal code states that a person is "not punishable" or liable if they commit a crime by reason of the "sickly disorder of his mental capacities", while the UN Commission on Human Rights urges all states "not to impose (the death penalty) on a person suffering from any form of mental disorder; not to execute any such person".

Unauthorized access to communications data is not punishable per se, which is why a private detective who gained access to the cellphone records of Arun Jaitley, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, has been charged under the weak provision on fraud, rather than invasion of privacy.