Right Against Excessive Fines, Cruel and Inhuman Punishment

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1. Which monetary sanction is expressly forbidden by Article III, Section 19?
2. Which treatment is expressly within the constitutional punishment prohibition?
3. Under RA 9346, what is the status of imposition of the death penalty?
4. A prosecutor asks a court to impose death solely because an old penal provision still uses that term, without accountin…
5. An officer intentionally inflicts severe pain on a detainee to force a confession and invokes a public emergency as jus…
6. A jail official orders deliberate, aggravated physical abuse of a convicted prisoner to humiliate him beyond the lawful…
7. An authority orders severe, intentional pain against a person in custody to obtain information. All statutory torture e…
8. Explain why a prisoner serving a lawful sentence still has protection against cruel, degrading or inhuman punishment.
9. A penal statute enacted before RA 9346 mentions death. Explain why that wording alone does not determine the sentence p…
10. An officer concedes conduct meeting RA 9745's torture definition but pleads a public emergency. Assess that defense.
11. Under RA 9346, Section 2(a), what replaces death when the violated law uses Revised Penal Code penalty nomenclature?
12. What substitute does RA 9346, Section 2(b) identify where the law does not use Revised Penal Code penalty nomenclature?