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cruel and unusual punishment

phrase describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the person subjected to it
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cruel and unusual punishment

Summary

cruel and unusual punishment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (331 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cruel and unusual punishment's subclass of is recorded as punishment[2].
  • cruel and unusual punishment's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01v57d[3].
  • cruel and unusual punishment's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/cruel-and-unusual-punishment[4].
  • cruel and unusual punishment's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as cruel-and-unusual-punishment[5].
  • cruel and unusual punishment's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[6].

Why It Matters

cruel and unusual punishment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (331 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cruel-and-unusual-punishment_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cruel and unusual punishment}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cruel-and-unusual-punishment}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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