| They want to stay and control the country and its resources, even if our military is subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| Having to resort to a cruel and unusual punishment adds a moral relativity that is profoundly provocative. |
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| He was freed in October, after the Georgia Supreme Court ruled his sentence was cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| We are supposed to be free from bond being denied us while we await trial and free from cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| But next fall, the Court, at least, will decide if executing the mentally retarded is cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| Our liberal elite understands when leniency has to end and cruel and unusual punishment must begin. |
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| He was unjustly smeared by FBI leaks and unproven allegations, and subjected to cruel and unusual punishment without a trial. |
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| They just don't care if someone is wrongly accused, and they could not care less about torture or cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| Spivey's lawyers had argued that Georgia's use of the electric chair for executions constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| Some critics will argue that the bill is against the charter of rights and that it is cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| Would the court not make a ruling that it is unconstitutional because it is cruel and unusual punishment? |
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| It will be considered cruel and unusual punishment and will not be bound by the one and a half. |
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| As for torture, we can go all the way back to the English Bill of Rights in 1689 to find that civilization had evolved enough to outlaw cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| Nor is torture permissible under different names: cruel and unusual punishment is unacceptable and illegal, whatever one may choose to call it. |
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| I looked into these facts and the first thing that strikes us about this case is the cruel and unusual punishment that is involved. |
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| Right to privacy and cruel and unusual punishment issues were also raised. |
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| As such, the immigration officer did not err in determining that the discrimination Nicolas might suffer in Haiti did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| She was a workingwoman, when she could get a card that's a triple cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| The Eighth Amendment bars cruel and unusual punishment for prisoners. |
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| Legal counsel from the Liberal government testified before the justice committee that mandatory prison terms for criminals would amount to cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| The principle of cruel and unusual punishment falls under the charters enshrining the great fundamental freedoms, such as the Canadian Charter and the Canadian Human Rights Act. |
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| The vast majority of these crimes, if we try to add mandatory minimums at the top end, I believe those would be struck down by our courts, under the charter, as being cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| Our courts simply said that the consequences and the penalties were so disproportional that it amounted to an offence under section 12 of the charter in terms of it being cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| Specifically, it works to guarantee all citizens the right to competent legal representation, the right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment and the right to a fair trial. |
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| I ask the minister, when Louise Russo is shot and confined to a wheelchair, when a four year old child is shot, or when a bus driver is shot in the face and blinded, is that not cruel and unusual punishment? |
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| Beginning in 1822, slaves in Mississippi were protected by law from cruel and unusual punishment by their owners. |
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