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The unusual repudiation of torture is reflected not only in our criminal laws, see e. g. §§ 2340-2340A, but also in international agreements, in centuries of Anglo-American law, see e. g., John H. Langbeen, Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancien Régime ( 1977 ) (“ Torture and the Law of Proof ”), and in the long standing policy of the United States, repeatedly and recently reaffirmed by the President.
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unusual and torture
Tickle torture is an unusual form of torture which nevertheless has been documented, and can be both physically and psychologically painful.
Frustrated by the lack of sufficient evidence to condemn Angélique, the prosecution contemplated asking for permission to apply torture prior to a definitive judgment, a highly unusual procedure which was rarely allowed in New France.
In criminal law, it refers to punishment, torture, victimization, draconian measures, and cruel and unusual punishment.
Opponents of solitary confinement hold that it is a form of cruel and unusual punishment and torture because the lack of human contact, and the sensory deprivation that often go with solitary confinement, can have a severe negative impact on a prisoner's mental state that may lead to certain mental illnesses such as depression, permanent or semi-permanent changes to brain physiology, an existential crisis, and death.
The practice of using stocks continues to be cited as an example of torture, cruel and unusual punishment.
The Constitution of the Marshall Islands, in the sixth section of its Bill of Rights ( art. 2 ), prohibits " cruel and unusual punishment ", which it defines as: the death penalty ; torture ; " inhuman and degrading treatment "; and " excessive fines or deprivations ".
* torture and cruel and unusual punishment are banned " under all circumstances ";
While the guidelines for interrogation do not specifically ban waterboarding, the executive order refers to torture as defined by 18 USC 2340, which includes " the threat of imminent death ," as well as the U. S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
At that time, he filed for a pre-removal risk assessment with the citizenship and immigration department, which determines if a denied refugee applicant would be subject to torture, death or a risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment if returned to their country of origin.
" A 2011 New York Bar association comprehensive study suggested that supermax prisons constitute " torture under international law " and " cruel and unusual punishment under the U. S. Constitution.
unusual and is
I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.
Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.
The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.
the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.
The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.
After a while there come initials and names, and he is interested to hear some rather unusual family nicknames.
On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.
There is clear evidence that Lucy from childhood had an unusual mind.
One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.
Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.
An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience ; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.
In American jurisprudence, under the rules for hearsay, admission of an unsupported affidavit as evidence is unusual ( especially if the affiant is not available for cross-examination ) with regard to material facts which may be dispositive of the matter at bar.
The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions ; instead a simple diceless system of comparative ability, and narrative description of the action by the players and gamemaster, is used to determine how situations are resolved.
Cysteine is unusual since it has a sulfur atom at the second position in its side-chain, which has a larger atomic mass than the groups attached to the first carbon, which is attached to the α-carbon in the other standard amino acids, thus the ( R ) instead of ( S ).
It is somewhat unusual for directors to be credited co-editors, although the Coen Brothers and Robert Rodriguez have both directed and edited nearly all of their films.
However, there is also evidence that silent reading did occur in antiquity and that it was not generally regarded as unusual.
Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.
The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.
Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.
There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >
unusual and reflected
Jefferson is known to have done an unusual amount of traveling for the time in the American South, which is reflected in the difficulty of pigeonholing his music into one regional category.
He attained unusual success, and his students subsequently reflected that he was a master of the human psyche and knew just which psychological buttons to press to give direction to his students ' lives.
The box was an unusual and unique commercial release, and it reflected the changing status of the photographer that one could sell a collection of prints in this way.
The passion she had for acting was reflected in her performances and an unusual thing happened for her, “ an African-American actress around whom producers and directors built production ”.
The Semitic cultures of the Middle East had a tradition of using unusual stones to mark places of worship, a phenomenon which is reflected in the Hebrew Bible as well as the Qur ' an.
According to the The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Dalby sees herself as eccentric, reflected in her writing, where she presents unusual yet interesting material.
Their musical style was an original blend of genres: they combined the high-volume electrified rock sound that had been pioneered by Jimi Hendrix ( whom McLaughlin had jammed with on his initial arrival in New York as part of the Tony Williams Lifetime ), complex rhythms in unusual time signatures that reflected McLaughlin's interest in Indian classical music as well as funk, and harmonic influence from European classical music.
The dipolar nature of the ground state is reflected in its deep colour, which is unusual for small unsaturated aromatic compounds.
He also published an article criticizing Dimitrie Sturdza ; its title, O lichea ( roughly: " A Scoundrel "), was reluctantly accepted by Epoca, and only after Caragiale claimed that it reflected the original meaning of the word lichea (" stain "), explaining that it referred to Sturdza's unusual persistence in politics.
The six-player version is particularly unusual because it has two contiguous screens ( one screen in the usual place for an arcade game, and other in the cabinet below, reflected by a mirror one side of the screen ) which created the effect of a single, " double-wide " screen set up, similar to The Ninja Warriors.
Bush's first few months were dominated by public disenchantment at this controversial and unusual election outcome, something reflected in his rainy inauguration ceremony in Washington DC, where 10, 000 protesters rallied against the president.
T. Nagar residents are an unusual mix of the traditional and the modern and this is reflected in the way the neighbourhood has been growing.
They employed unusual time signatures, as reflected in songs like ' Seven Is A Jolly Good Time '.
Her whole figure reflected an unusual strength, without detracting from the femininity of her appearance.
The association of a passenger-facing brand with a specific model of train was unusual, but reflected the significantly improved passenger facilities such trains provided when compared with the mainstay of the Regional Railways fleet.
During times of high winds, blowing dust is sometimes illuminated by the reflected sunbeams to create an unusual atmospheric phenomenon in the vicinity of the power tower.
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