"It is horrible that in a civilized country the arbitrary imposition of revenge continues to exist," he said.

Harlan described the "liberty" protected by that clause as "a rational continuum which, broadly speaking, includes a freedom from all substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints."

It is a rational continuum which, broadly speaking, includes a freedom from all substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints.

No executions took place from 1967 to 1977, owing in part to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down arbitrary imposition of the death penalty.

In the following four years, 37 states enacted new death penalty laws aimed at overcoming the court's concerns about arbitrary imposition of the death penalty.

For the Court, these factors adequately guarded against the risk of arbitrary imposition of the death sentence.

The calendar has seemed an arbitrary imposition of order on the underlying reality of chaos.

This constitutional litmus test of executive action was, at least in theory, a significant step toward an institutionalized governmental system and away from the arbitrary imposition of power by self-serving caudillos.

We think the Booth Court was wrong in stating that this kind of evidence leads to the arbitrary imposition of the death penalty.

Citizens must rise to say they no longer accept the arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable imposition of the Rockefeller drugs laws.