Word: draconianism
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...capital punishment actually deters murder. While deterrence is always difficult to demonstrate, little research has indicated any diminution in crime due to the institution of the death penalty. While the gas chamber may strike fear in the hearts of many, hardened criminals will carry out murders regardless of the draconian nature of the punishment...
...course Lee will not pass draconian judgments on his sweet, sad characters. "My Oriental upbringing made me bring sympathy to them," he says. "It also gave me the fear of nature, fear and respect for something bigger than life, something unknown that you can't control." He could mean not just the ice storm in his delicately devastating film, but the wayward impulses that rage in every human heart...
Without people like Soros to fund a return to sanity, our bigoted and draconian drug laws will continue to result in the unchallenged persecution of millions of peaceful Americans. CLARK BATTLE Secane...
...draconian as to disenroll students who fail to hand in their forms," Prokopow said...
...statutes so that demonstrators would be required to seek advance permission for the street protests that have become a regular Hong Kong ritual and barring political parties from accepting foreign contributions, as in the U.S. But clumsy writing and ominous references to "national security" stoked widespread alarm that more draconian gags and shackles lay ahead...