the unfairness concerning who gets punished has not disappeared. Many analysts of punishment in the United States cite the disproportionate number of African Americans in prisons as proof ofSelective Prosecutionand punishment. Scholars and others have also questioned a system that punishes drug offenses ...
because a first-degree murder charge can only be supported by proof that the defendant possessed a "specific intent" to commit the crime. At a minimum, the court said, proof ofSpecific Intentrequires evidence that the defendant had "an actual intent to undertake the conduct resulting in death...
, is that those who believe that human beings do sometimes act freely face exactly the same difficulty, for no current account of freedom has the sort of evidentiary support that condemning a person to punishment requires; no current account could meet even the most minimal burden of proof. ...
as many as 15,000 section 1983 actions were filed each year, many of them frivolous. The Supreme Court responded by requiring many prisoners to use statetortclaims acts rather than the federal statute and the federal courts. The Court also established difficult standards of proof for prisoners ...
You're grounded for three months, with no car or phone privileges—I think the punishment fits the crime."If you stop being friends with Tiff because she started that nasty rumor about you, I'd say the punishment definitely fits the crime. I mean, how can you trust her ever again?
16.punished especially by reproof or reprimand.特别是用谴责和申斥的方式来惩处。 17.Always she feared lest some louse had escaped her.她总是害怕有个虱子逃过了他的惩处。 18.At last the criminals are being brought to justice.这个罪犯终于要依法惩处了。 相关短句/例句 to punish according to law依...
who assisted in divine service (or, from 1547, a peer of the realm) were allowed to go free, though it remained within the judge’s power to sentence them toprisonfor up to a year, or from 1717 onward to transportation for seven years. Because duringmedievaltimes the only proof of ordi...
WHEREAS, God requires proof of guilt before any punishment is administered (Deuteronomy 19:15-19); and WHEREAS, God’s instructions require a civil magistrate to judge all people equally under the law, regardless of class or status (Leviticus 19:15; Deuteronomy 1:17); and WHEREAS, All people...
Synonyms for PUNISHMENT: penalty, wrath, sentence, chastisement, discipline, castigation, correction, comeuppance; Antonyms of PUNISHMENT: parole, indemnity, pardon, amnesty, vindication, acquittal, exemption, immunity
This punishment is being given on the upper back, in contrast to the previous item, which gives photographic proof of flogging on the bare buttocks. Does this mean that practice varied in an ad hoc manner from one occasion to another? Or could it be that the artist in 1884 was inhibi...