The inmates claimed that housing two men in a cell of particularly small dimensions constituted "cruel and unusual punishment."

She had argued that to apply the law to the boy constituted cruel and unusual punishment.

He alleged that the use of the electric chair during executions in Georgia constituted cruel and unusual punishment.

The court found that denial of treatment without a medically necessary reason constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Among the questions will be what constitutes just punishment for abusive behavior, she said.

The conditions are so abysmal, the court ruled, that they constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

I think that may have constituted cruel and unusual punishment.

But it denied his claim that such imprisonment constituted cruel or unusual punishment.

Both cases seem to us to constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

They claimed that the living conditions constituted cruel and unusual punishment.