Animal welfare groups argue that any whaling, managed or not, is inherently cruel.

Allegations that the sea transport of live animals must be inherently cruel is not evident from trade data or official statistics.

Commercial whaling is an inherently cruel practice that represents a significant threat to the conservation status of whales, both rare and abundant.

The United States Supreme Court has rejected arguments that capital punishment is inherently cruel and unusual under the United States Constitution.

Torture is inherently cruel and unusual under section 12.

Darroch stated his action was not aimed at the particular farm he had chained himself to, but rather at an industry that is "inherently cruel, and a government which refuses to act".

On Wednesday morning, 619 miles to the north, a House subcommittee will hear the death penalty denounced, not as inherently cruel and unusual, but as unfair and racially discriminatory as applied.

Secondly, they argued that, if an activity was inherently cruel, it should be deemed as such by Parliament, rather than prosecutors having to argue and prove cruelty in every court case.

He maintained that chaining is inherently cruel to the dogs and endangers human beings because chained animals are exceptionally aggressive.

I can accept that some acts are inherently cruel - the issue of consent has nothing to do with it.