Examples of 'cruel and unusual punishment' in a sentence

Meaning of "cruel and unusual punishment"

The phrase 'cruel and unusual punishment' is a legal term that refers to a type of punishment that goes beyond acceptable standards of humanity, decency, or fairness. It is often associated with the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which prohibits the use of cruel and unusual punishments. This phrase encompasses various forms of severe, excessive, or degrading punishments that violate fundamental human rights

How to use "cruel and unusual punishment" in a sentence

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cruel and unusual punishment
It therefore becomes cruel and unusual punishment.
Cruel and unusual punishment are not acceptable.
Capital punishment is cruel and unusual punishment.
Cruel and unusual punishment is also forbidden.
Mum is an expert at cruel and unusual punishment.
Its cruel and unusual punishment to withhold it if you do.
That constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
Cruel and unusual punishment reserved solely for dangerous offenders.
It would probably be cruel and unusual punishment.
Cruel and unusual punishment of slaves was considered a violation of the fifth commandment.
Because it resulted in cruel and unusual punishment.
It is cruel and unusual punishment for you to bring me back here like this.
It gives new meaning to cruel and unusual punishment.
From cruel and unusual punishment.
I think this qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.

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It seems cruel and unusual punishment to deny them.
Grounding me for a month is cruel and unusual punishment.
What a cruel and unusual punishment.
The eighth amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
This is cruel and unusual punishment.
Keeping me in here with them is cruel and unusual punishment.
That is cruel and unusual punishment.
Find these particular executions to be cruel and unusual punishment.
Sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me.
Due process and prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.
I call it cruel and unusual punishment.
It is primarily notable as it pertains to the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
Talk about cruel and unusual punishment.
And switching drugs is the very essence of cruel and unusual punishment.
Covers cruel and unusual punishment.
This thing has got to be considered a cruel and unusual punishment.
It was a cruel and unusual punishment.
Even in this city that constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
We are talking cruel and unusual punishment here just to work on his goddamn campaign.
I even wrote a brief about cruel and unusual punishment.
Cruel and unusual punishment is banned by the eighth amendment of the American Constitution.
It seems like cruel and unusual punishment.
The justices declared such an execution would be cruel and unusual punishment.
This is clearly cruel and unusual punishment for you.
And he believed the death penalty amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
A cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
That would be a cruel and unusual punishment.
He decided that she would be subjected to a particularly cruel and unusual punishment.
A second injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the eighth amendment.
They claimed that the living conditions constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
I mean, this is cruel and unusual punishment.
The stuff they serve in prison should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Joe, this is cruel and unusual punishment.
Rupe argued that hanging would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
However, cruel and unusual punishment is.

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