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Mandatory minimum sentences undermine the basic tradition of justice that Americans have enjoyed for 200 years - that the punishment fit the crime. ... CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS...
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www.hr95.org/Cruel.html
www.hr95.org/Cruel.html
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Many inmates enter prison as nonviolent, low-level drug offenders, yet minor misconduct "on the inside" is met with cruel punishment. Whether they deteriorate into "zombies" or "monsters" because of such punishment is ignored by our public servants, despite substantial evidence that isolation generates mental illness.
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www.lightparty.com/Misc/CruelUnusual.html
www.lightparty.com/Misc/CruelUnusual.html
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Charles Spencer reviews The Good Soul of Szechuan at the Young Vic. ... She's rather less impressive as her alter ego Feng Shui - sorry, Shui Ta - even if she looks very fetching in male drag. The diminutive Horrocks simply hasn't got it in her to seem callously cruel.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/charlesspenc...
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/charlesspencer/3673414/The-Good-Soul-of-Szechuan-Brechts-cruel-punishment.html
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THE SUPREME Court has spoken: The current method of injection to execute inmates does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. But this declaration, delivered in a splintered, 97-page opinion Wednesday, should not end the public debate about capital punishment -- nor about whether states, as ... ... Chief Justice John G.
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041802901.html
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Eleven-year-old Shano Ayub passed away in the early hours of Friday, her frail body unable to survive the inhuman punishment in school two days ago. ... It is learnt Manju had been cruel to Shano in the past, and had beaten her often. Saina said: “This is how she punishes every girl. But she was more rude to Shano and...
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www.expressindia.com/latest-news/corporal-punishment-tu...
www.expressindia.com/latest-news/corporal-punishment-turns-capital-punishment/448439/
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The Convention of Children's Rights (CRC) states that children should not be subjected to cruel and harmful punishment ... It is interesting, because what do they mean by cruel and harmful? It’s a very subjective thing to define, for there are no hard and fast rules. ... Some people believe that corporal punishment,
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thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/10/28/lif...
thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/10/28/lifefocus/20071028092325&sec=lifefocus
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Selected quotations; overview; ... Facts about the death penalty: ... Capital punishment: All viewpoints on the death penalty...
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www.religioustolerance.org/execute.htm
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For the first time, a US appeals court has struck down a long sentence imposed under the law, saying it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling is already igniting debate over the merits of strict mandatory sentences.
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www.csmonitor.com/2001/1108/p1s3-usju.html
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