Sentence examples for was punishable by from inspiring English sources

"Blackstone actually talks about how rape under Saxon law was punishable by death, and then there was a period — 1285 — where the punishment was 'relaxed' to loss of the eyes and testicles.

Vulnerability was punishable by death.

Failure to attend daily prayers was punishable by public flogging.

In his Libya, dissent was punishable by death.

Such assistance was punishable by death under Nazi occupation.

Until now, adultery was punishable by three months in jail.

Violating the pledge, they said, was punishable by death.

(Jefferson's position was actually a liberal reform: at the time, homosexuality was punishable by death).

(The referendum passed; open criticism of the plan was punishable by twenty years in prison).

Were I to speak about this in public, directly or indirectly, then it was punishable by imprisonment.

About 1,000 articles were enumerated, and violation was punishable by death; severe penalties were exacted of black marketeers.