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Meaning of 严刑

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yán xíng (Trad.: 嚴刑)
strict law; cruel punishment; to carry out cruel law rigorously
Example Sentences
1
He would eventually confess to the murders under the threat of torture.
2
To sum up, only when strict punishment can be imposed on the lawless, can social stability be maintained.
3
But equally important, I think, is that our mass culture is filled with wildly misleading ideas about how torture works.
4
The torture of a criminal during the course of his trial is a cruelty consecrated by custom in most nations.
5
These truths were known to the Roman legislators, amongst whom, as I have already observed, slaves only, who were not considered as citizens, were tortured.