"punishment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The inmates claimed that housing two men in a cell of particularly small dimensions constituted "cruel and unusual punishment."
- She had argued that to apply the law to the boy constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
- He alleged that the use of the electric chair during executions in Georgia constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
- The court found that denial of treatment without a medically necessary reason constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
- Among the questions will be what constitutes just punishment for abusive behavior, she said.
- The conditions are so abysmal, the court ruled, that they constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
- I think that may have constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
- But it denied his claim that such imprisonment constituted cruel or unusual punishment.
- Both cases seem to us to constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
- They claimed that the living conditions constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
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