cruel and unusual punishment

基本解释

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。
And indeed the Court this time held that executions of persons with mental retardation did violate the Eighth Amendment's proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment.
此次法院当真认为对精神发育迟滞的人施用死刑的确违反了第八修正案禁止残酷刑罚的规定。
The execution was delayed while Kemmler's case was appealed on the grounds that it violated the Eighth Amendment restriction against cruel and unusual punishment.
然而，由于凯姆勒的案件违背第八修正案对酷刑和罕有刑罚的限制，凯姆勒提出上诉，处决被推迟。

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.

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
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