1) cruel punishment
残酷刑罚
1.
A cruel punishment is an invalid one that does not respect a felon’s dignity or personality.
残酷刑罚是不尊重罪犯尊严和人格,或者剥夺或限制罪犯不应剥夺或限制的权利,或者无助于实现使罪犯成为新人要求的,或者造成罪犯肉体或精神上极度痛苦的不必要的刑罚。
3) an admittedly severe punishment
公认严酷的刑罚
4) Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel,Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment [United Nations]
《禁止酷刑和其它残忍、不人道或有辱人格的待遇或处罚公约》(联合国)
5) the cruel penalties
酷法酷刑
6) cruel torture
酷刑
1.
Ancient Chinese cruel torture may fall into inquisition torture and legal torture,both of which were the cruelest in the human history.
中国古代酷刑大体可分为讯刑与法定刑两种,由于法外施刑的大量存在,刑罚之残酷是人类历史上罕见的。
2.
Subjecting to torture is a typical example of cruel torture in China.
刑讯逼供是我国酷刑行为的典型存在方式,所以,遏制刑讯逼供是消除酷刑的关键环节。
3.
But we should notice since defending autocratic monarchy, as the ideological base of the system of inquisition by torture and its absolution, it also has the responsibility that cannot be shirked for the phenomenon of long-term and extensive existence of cruel torture in traditional Chinese society.
但我们也应看到,由于维护君主专制、作为刑讯制度的思想基础及其自身的绝对化,它对酷刑现象在传统中国社会长期、广泛地存在也负有不可推卸的责任。
补充资料：残酷
凶暴狠毒：敌人的残酷审讯最终也没能使他屈服。
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