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The devil and the damned have punishment without pity, misery without mercy, sorrow without succor, crying without comfort, mischief without measure, torments without end and past imagination. John Trapp – JOHN TRAPP (1601-1699)	added by gracesouthern3 7 months ago
One of the things that we’ve seen year after a year since 2015, with the addition of the Special Victims Counsel program – which are attorneys that represent victims throughout the military justice process – is that victims have made it abundantly clear that they would like to help see the department hold their offenders appropriately accountable, but they’d like to do it through nonconfrontational means, and that’s essentially what we see in the percentages with administrative actions and discharges and non-judicial punishment. – Nate Galbreath	Found on CNN 12 months ago
Let’s be clear, life without the possibility of parole is a severe punishment, you are condemned to die in a Florida prison. – Maria DeLiberato	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For the most part, we are on the right track for Malaysia – it’s a reform that has been a long time coming, we should not deny the fact that the state is killing someone and whether the state should have this kind of power … having the mandatory punishment abolished is a good time for us to start reflecting about it. – Dobby Chew	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That is the end of capital punishment in this state. When you execute an innocent man, knowingly execute an innocent man, you know there will be no more capital punishment in this state and possibly anywhere else in this country. – Josh Shapiro	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When my son asked me why it’s OK to kill someone as a punishment for killing someone, I couldn’t look him in the eye and explain why. i wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery. – Tracey Lomax	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They can tell this government that this modus operandi doesn’t work. You can’t keep pushing Palestinians like that. You can’t have more than 30 Palestinians killed in less than a month [as has happened in January]. You can’t demolish homes – that will expel families – and [impose] collective punishment measures, it won’t be long before Palestinians say, ‘You know what, we have to also organize and defend ourselves … nobody’s there to help us. So we’re going to do it ourselves.’ When you get there, nobody can put a lid on that. – Nour Odeh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think that right now the PA is in a very fragile and very weak status, every punishment or economic punishment, will actually undermine and damage more the stability of the PA, although the PA causes a lot of problems to Israel… we have much more profits from the existence of the PA than from its vanishing. – Michael Milshtein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One juror should not be able to veto that, i don't think justice was served in that case. If you're going to have capital [punishment], you have to administer it to the worst of the worst crimes. – Ron DeSantis	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We think the public has a right to enforce the penalties it wants, it chooses for crimes, and the public has been supportive of capital punishment for the worst murderers pretty much throughout the history of the country. – Michael Rushford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
With regards to tampering, I strongly disagree with the conclusions and the punishment, however, I will accept the outcome because the most important thing is that there be no distractions for our team as we begin an exciting and winning season. I will not allow anything to get in the way of that. – Stephen Ross	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Being more selective about prosecutions will allow us to focus on the crimes that matter most to all of us, we’ve got to go beyond punishment and invest in our community. – Jason Williams	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Regret is a form of punishment itself. – unknown	added by unochickie 1 year ago
I review each death penalty case and believe it is an appropriate punishment for heinous crimes, however, the death penalty is an extremely serious matter, and I expect the Tennessee Department of Correction to leave no question that procedures are correctly followed. – Bill Lee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When I got to my daughter, I said,' Hey you don't fight, you don't do this,' she started telling me,' Dad, my neck hurts, my neck hurts.' I wasn't aware of any pictures or videos, so when we got home, I told her to go to her room like any parent would, my daughter kept complaining about her pain, I'm thinking she's just trying to get out of punishment. – Jerrel Perez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We’re talking about a kind of prison without walls where he’s deprived of travel for the next 10 years, that would be continuing the punishment outside of prison that he was having inside prison — the severe pain of being deprived of being with his wife and children. – Irwin Cotler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Keystone is emblematic of just the punishment this administration has doled out to the energy industry at large, this example of how this administration has punished the fossil fuel industry, punished the infrastructure, and it has also then scared off a lot of investment … This government is making it impossible to bring things to fruition. – Daniel Turner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I support sanctions that are targeted at Putin, his oligarchs, and the Russian military, including and especially targeted at their offshore assets, but I will continue to oppose broad-based sanctions that would amount to collective punishment of a Russian population that did not choose this. – Ilhan Omar	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In a society that takes great pleasure in the punishment of women who break the rules, it should come as no surprise that each suspect in this case has been acquitted, after today's verdict, we may ask, who killed her ? Nobody, it seems. In accepting that answer, we are all complicit in the crime of failing to protect women. – Sanam Maher	Found on CNN 2 years ago
How can you enjoy healthy food so it's never a punishment and always a reward ? Figure out what it is you love, love barbecue ? Roast some cauliflower with barbecue rub. Delicious ! – Dina Aronson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The judiciary is determined to inflict the most severe punishment on( the killer and a suspected accomplice) in accordance with the law. – Ensieh Khazali	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The punishment for the crime, there’s nothing there, we hear more and more if you get pulled over in a stolen car and say ‘I didn’t know’, they send you on your way whether you stole it or not. – Clark Tenney	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We’re not saying there needs to be an absence of punishment. No, but the punishment needs to fit the behavior. That’s why you have a rubric, and when you misuse the rubrics by saying, ‘It’s any other serious offense.’ Then you know they don’t really have a cause of action to justify what they’re doing. They’re making it up as they go along. – Pat Magee	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Every day we are hearing about reports of antidemocratic factions, people plotting potential violence in 2024. It has to be made clear that trying to stop the peaceful transition of power, assaulting law enforcement, is going to be met with certain punishment. Not staying at home, not watching Netflix, not doing what you were doing before you got arrested. – Judge Tanya Chutkan Chutkan	Found on CNN 2 years ago

The devil and the damned have punishment without pity, misery without mercy, sorrow without succor, crying without comfort, mischief without measure, torments without end and past imagination. John Trapp

– JOHN TRAPP (1601-1699)

added by gracesouthern3
7 months ago

One of the things that we’ve seen year after a year since 2015, with the addition of the Special Victims Counsel program – which are attorneys that represent victims throughout the military justice process – is that victims have made it abundantly clear that they would like to help see the department hold their offenders appropriately accountable, but they’d like to do it through nonconfrontational means, and that’s essentially what we see in the percentages with administrative actions and discharges and non-judicial punishment.

– Nate Galbreath

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Let’s be clear, life without the possibility of parole is a severe punishment, you are condemned to die in a Florida prison.

– Maria DeLiberato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For the most part, we are on the right track for Malaysia – it’s a reform that has been a long time coming, we should not deny the fact that the state is killing someone and whether the state should have this kind of power … having the mandatory punishment abolished is a good time for us to start reflecting about it.

– Dobby Chew

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That is the end of capital punishment in this state. When you execute an innocent man, knowingly execute an innocent man, you know there will be no more capital punishment in this state and possibly anywhere else in this country.

– Josh Shapiro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When my son asked me why it’s OK to kill someone as a punishment for killing someone, I couldn’t look him in the eye and explain why. i wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery.

– Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They can tell this government that this modus operandi doesn’t work. You can’t keep pushing Palestinians like that. You can’t have more than 30 Palestinians killed in less than a month [as has happened in January]. You can’t demolish homes – that will expel families – and [impose] collective punishment measures, it won’t be long before Palestinians say, ‘You know what, we have to also organize and defend ourselves … nobody’s there to help us. So we’re going to do it ourselves.’ When you get there, nobody can put a lid on that.

– Nour Odeh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that right now the PA is in a very fragile and very weak status, every punishment or economic punishment, will actually undermine and damage more the stability of the PA, although the PA causes a lot of problems to Israel… we have much more profits from the existence of the PA than from its vanishing.

– Michael Milshtein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One juror should not be able to veto that, i don't think justice was served in that case. If you're going to have capital [punishment], you have to administer it to the worst of the worst crimes.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We think the public has a right to enforce the penalties it wants, it chooses for crimes, and the public has been supportive of capital punishment for the worst murderers pretty much throughout the history of the country.

– Michael Rushford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With regards to tampering, I strongly disagree with the conclusions and the punishment, however, I will accept the outcome because the most important thing is that there be no distractions for our team as we begin an exciting and winning season. I will not allow anything to get in the way of that.

– Stephen Ross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Being more selective about prosecutions will allow us to focus on the crimes that matter most to all of us, we’ve got to go beyond punishment and invest in our community.

– Jason Williams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Regret is a form of punishment itself.

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

I review each death penalty case and believe it is an appropriate punishment for heinous crimes, however, the death penalty is an extremely serious matter, and I expect the Tennessee Department of Correction to leave no question that procedures are correctly followed.

– Bill Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I got to my daughter, I said,' Hey you don't fight, you don't do this,' she started telling me,' Dad, my neck hurts, my neck hurts.' I wasn't aware of any pictures or videos, so when we got home, I told her to go to her room like any parent would, my daughter kept complaining about her pain, I'm thinking she's just trying to get out of punishment.

– Jerrel Perez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We’re talking about a kind of prison without walls where he’s deprived of travel for the next 10 years, that would be continuing the punishment outside of prison that he was having inside prison — the severe pain of being deprived of being with his wife and children.

– Irwin Cotler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Keystone is emblematic of just the punishment this administration has doled out to the energy industry at large, this example of how this administration has punished the fossil fuel industry, punished the infrastructure, and it has also then scared off a lot of investment … This government is making it impossible to bring things to fruition.

– Daniel Turner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I support sanctions that are targeted at Putin, his oligarchs, and the Russian military, including and especially targeted at their offshore assets, but I will continue to oppose broad-based sanctions that would amount to collective punishment of a Russian population that did not choose this.

– Ilhan Omar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In a society that takes great pleasure in the punishment of women who break the rules, it should come as no surprise that each suspect in this case has been acquitted, after today's verdict, we may ask, who killed her ? Nobody, it seems. In accepting that answer, we are all complicit in the crime of failing to protect women.

– Sanam Maher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

How can you enjoy healthy food so it's never a punishment and always a reward ? Figure out what it is you love, love barbecue ? Roast some cauliflower with barbecue rub. Delicious !

– Dina Aronson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The judiciary is determined to inflict the most severe punishment on( the killer and a suspected accomplice) in accordance with the law.

– Ensieh Khazali

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The punishment for the crime, there’s nothing there, we hear more and more if you get pulled over in a stolen car and say ‘I didn’t know’, they send you on your way whether you stole it or not.

– Clark Tenney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re not saying there needs to be an absence of punishment. No, but the punishment needs to fit the behavior. That’s why you have a rubric, and when you misuse the rubrics by saying, ‘It’s any other serious offense.’ Then you know they don’t really have a cause of action to justify what they’re doing. They’re making it up as they go along.

– Pat Magee

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every day we are hearing about reports of antidemocratic factions, people plotting potential violence in 2024. It has to be made clear that trying to stop the peaceful transition of power, assaulting law enforcement, is going to be met with certain punishment. Not staying at home, not watching Netflix, not doing what you were doing before you got arrested.

– Judge Tanya Chutkan Chutkan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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