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That might sound a little cruel, but given his behavior, it’s his just rewards, But on the other hand, I think that it might work to his favor.

The Eighth Amendment forbids “cruel and unusual punishments,” and the Supreme Court has held that this amendment prohibits states from imposing certain punishments on certain individuals.

Beyond these two especially high-profile cases, this term gives the Court an opportunity to reshape the law governing cruel and unusual punishments — and to potentially weaken existing safeguards against such punishments considerably.

A clinician who had grown up in the town reached out to Anna Mueller for help breaking the cruel cycle.

That's the cruel way someone anonymously replied to a family asking for help for their sick child.

His later books drew heavily from experiences and people he encountered at the bar, including the cruel captain in The Sea-Wolf.

Not to those in power, not to the cruel and inhumane, not to the wealthy.

Hatuey replied that he would rather burn and be sent to hell than ever again encounter people as cruel as the Spanish.

The New Jersey governor vetoed a ban on a rarely used cruel practice for pregnant pigs.

The story of Alstory Simon has all the scope and scale, the cruel reversals, and pointless waste of proper tragedy.

They can be unmade by judicial fiat, but it feels awfully cruel to do so.

Vsevolod Meyerhold, the great theater director, spoke of the effect the “angry, cruel headlines” had on his friend.

When the family was fine, or when a cruel employee at the dam was behind the flood, God was left out of the explanation.

In other words, markets were impersonal, but that was good, because sometimes personal ties were cruel and oppressive.

But what happens at Winchester University is a microcosm of the cruel world beyond its be-crested gates.

We are strong in our accomplishments, yet by some cruel irony we possess soft sensitive bodies and extraordinarily tall buildings.

His actions were cruel and vicious—and also squalid and contemptible.

Your heart bleeds for a 12-year-old who sulks after discovering the cruel realities of humanity.

Time has been cruel to many once-revered political assertions.

They have endured intifadas and an often cruel military occupation.

Until that day comes, it would be cruel to even dream of peace.

But the commentary that McCarthy gets from her so-called supporters is often just as cruel, but somehow more insidious.

They were often cruel and thoughtless to one another, regardless of their complete commitment to their family.

There was a cruel irony in him being killed from above by an errant bomb dropped by an American B-1 bomber.

Now, in a cruel reversal of fate, they are the ones seeking shelter in a strange land.

And then Jolly Robin would feel ashamed that he had even thought of being so cruel to an infant bird, even if he was a Cowbird.

Through what ages has that declaration, not to be denied, ascended to cold and cruel skies?

His silence had frightened her: what if he should resent on her the cruel words spoken by Dr. Ashton?

There had been cruel misunderstanding on his part somewhere; that misunderstanding must be burned away.

In a thousand trials the cruel witness of Moses has sent innocent women to a painful death.

That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.

How could she be at the same time both cruel and tender, both true and false, frank and secretive, spiritual and sensual?

But there was a point where the heart felt neither one nor other, neither cruel nor tender, false nor true.

Seen in this light, infant mortality and the cruel wastage of disease were viewed with complacence.

Shooting guerrillas after they were caught and burning houses did not tend to make those left less cruel.

Poor brutes, they deserved a better fate than the cruel method of extinction which Turkish rule administered.

But I had to do it seeing there is no word of the cruel losses of the battle of the 4th being made good by the Admiralty.

Would it be cruel to cut off children from the privileges of civil society because of their feebleness?

A cruel smile played around the lips of Strachan as he saluted his superior and departed.

Prince Boris stammered something, but the cruel light of triumph in his eyes belied his words.

She thought it unkind and cruel, and her dark eyes flashed with a sudden fire, that dried up the gathering tears.

Thy children fought and fell;But not for dying Italy, ah, no,But in the service of her cruel foe!

Did still its thorn within my bosom lodge,As I the past recalled; but shame, indeed,Left not its cruel sting within this heart.

And he asked him that had received the orders of the king, why so cruel a sentence was gone forth from the face of the king.

Even her firm and resigned spirit was for a moment vanquished by this cruel blow.