He considered that a cruel and unusual way to go.

他认为这是一种残忍的、与众不同的方法。

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The imperial family's treatment would anywhere else count as cruel and unusual punishment.

皇家的待遇同别处相比可谓是残酷和非比寻常的惩罚。

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A federal ruling, upheld by the Supreme Court in May, has found the conditions "cruel and unusual", and requires California to release roughly 30, 000 inmates in the next two years.

五月一项被高级法院支持的联邦裁定指出了这种状况是“残忍的和非正常的”并且要求加州在接下来的两年时间里释放大约三万名囚犯。

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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.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

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

His lawyers argue that an unprecedented second execution attempt on Broom would violate a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

BBC: Ohio governor delays executions

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