heinousness
- n the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
- Berlin's Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung gloated that Captain Gring "did not make use of his pardoning power because of the heinousness of their treacherous attacks and the .
- In many of the 36 states that have capital-punishment statutes, the decision concerning who shall live and who shall die often has disturbingly little to do with the heinousness of .
- Prisoners at Camp Phillips, as at other centers, are divided into three groups, depending on the heinousness of their offenses and the prospects of their reform: 1) first-grade .