cruel and unusual punishment

基本解釋

The imperial family's treatment would anywhere else count as cruel and unusual punishment.
皇家的待遇同別處相比可謂是殘酷和非比尋常的懲罰。
And indeed the Court this time held that executions of persons with mental retardation did violate the Eighth Amendment's proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment.
此次法院當真認為對精神發(fā)育遲滯的人施用死刑的確違反了第八修正案禁止殘酷刑罰的規(guī)定。
The execution was delayed while Kemmler's case was appealed on the grounds that it violated the Eighth Amendment restriction against cruel and unusual punishment.
然而，由于凱姆勒的案件違背第八修正案對酷刑和罕有刑罰的限制，凱姆勒提出上訴，處決被推遲。

In addition,the nine justices will also hear arguments about whether sentencing juveniles to life in prison without paroles for crimes other than murder violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment.

In 1972 the United States Supreme Court ruled that all death penalty laws were cruel and unusual punishment.
ECONOMIST: The death penalty: From the grave The
Those doctors had been asked to attend the execution after Morales's legal team called California's lethal injection cocktail cruel and unusual punishment.
NPR: The Medical Ethics of the Death Penalty