Assertion: punishment | /r/HasProperty | severe
Facets:
value: unusually
type: DEGREE
value: far
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The punishments that the government has inflicted on the protesters are severe and unjust.
text: It prevents the government from imposing a penalty that is either barbaric or far too severe for the crime committed.
text: Punishment must be just and the fundamental aim should be not to impose suffering on offenders but to reassert the broken moral order which lies behind any defensible code of law.
text: Punishment was the most comprehensive and severe in colonies founded on religious principles.
text: The test, then, will ordinarily be a cumulative one: if a punishment is unusually severe, if there is a strong probability that it is inflicted arbitrarily, if it is substantially rejected by contemporary society, and if there is no reason to believe that it serves any penal purpose more effectively than some less severe punishment, then the continued infliction of that punishment violates the command of the Clause that the State may not inflict inhuman and uncivilized punishments upon those convicted of crimes.
text: In a possession of child pornography case, where the punishment is severe to begin with, the ultimate sentence can be increased for many additional reasons that would seem to be a part of the underlying crime.
text: The second relates to the severity of punishment; how severe the punishment is for a particular crime may influence behavior if the potential offender concludes that the punishment is so severe, it is not worth the risk of getting caught.
text: Punishment for rape in California is severe, and it includes prison time and expensive fines.