Word: punished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alabama and Virginia are at present the only other states which punish robbery by death. The Missouri statute is contrary to the general trend of the law, which, since 1780, when there were 240 capital offenses in England, has been away from capital punishment...
...increased by the prison system which rests on retaliation, the principle of an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. It is, the absolute foundation of our criminal law. But no court of law can weigh a man's soul. You have no right to punish a criminal, but you should put him away if he is a danger to organized society...
...ruling may, it is true, be aimed at the professional tutoring schools who stuff their subjects full during the summer and have them disgorge their knowledge at the September examinations. It is hardly fair, however, to punish the innocent alike with the guilty. To take away credit in three or four examinations because of failure in a fourth or fifth does not seem quite just. If this plan is adopted as a measure to further limitation of enrollment, a statement should be made to that effect. At present commentators are balked by its apparent unreasonableness...
Then, during the War, 2.75% alcoholic content was set as the limit on legal beverages. The revenue agents still collected the tax and undertook to punish those who disregarded the limit. A little later, the legal limit was reduced to .5%. The Bureau of Internal Revenue still undertook the business of enforcement. There was no longer any revenue to be derived from a tax on alcoholic beverages, but the Bureau handled the taxes and regulations on alcohol for industrial uses. A special unit was then set up by the Bureau to undertake the increased labor of enforcing the .5% restriction...
...cannot punish a millionaire as a poor man would be punished, no matter how revolting or inhuman his crime...