"The cassation (appeals) court last week rejected the state security court's decision to sentence Moamar al-Jaghbir to death and replaced it with 15 years of
hard labor in prison for his role in the assassination of Laurence Foley," Fathi Daradkeh told AFP.
"We believe that
hard labor is the best way to control the drug dealers," Moqaddam said, announcing that 11 labor camps will be set up.
The law then: "Punished with death, or imprisonment at
hard labor for life, 'whosoever shall write, print, publish or distribute any thing having a tendency to produce discontent among the free coloured population of the state, or insubordination among the slaves therein.'"
On May 12, a military court sentenced Paredes to three months of
hard labor for missing his deployment.
Unfortunately, there is a widely-held misconception in the Army that
hard labor, a form of punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), (3) is "dead." (4) By definition, labor is a physical or mental exertion.
Anderson gives a vivid picture of what life was like in the British Navy of the 18th century: brutally
hard labor and punishments and unquestioned obedience to the captain; and by these standards Bligh was not an unreasonable disciplinarian.
Sure, the raw material is potentially explosive, politically absorbing, and emotionally devastating: the forbidden 18th-century love affair between a black convict and a white convict sentenced to
hard labor in a South African penal colony during an ugly antigay pogrom by Dutch settlers.
As my grandfather commuted to whatever city job he could find, my grandmother--city-born and -bred--performed the
hard labor and raised three children with, I'm told, unfailing good humor.
Adults worked long days in the fields, then came home at night, stiff and aching from the
hard labor. Their children were trained in the unique methods of Thai massage in order to help restore their parents' energy, preparing them for a good night's sleep and a productive next day.
Here we've created, with our tax dollars and the
hard labor of many, incredibly efficient collection, purification and delivery systems to bring this precious liquid straight to our kitchen faucets.
The Palestine of Jesus' day was a world of grinding poverty for the masses,
hard labor for a daily pittance, and brutal military occupiers whose preferred method of crowd control was crucifixion for all who dared to rise up and resist.
In retrospect, I think my analysis of
hard labor for remuneration was very different from my ideas today, which have been shaped by the experience of realizing many difficult projects.