Sentence examples for draconian statutes from inspiring English sources
Many colonial laws, including draconian statutes against "sedition" and "offending religious sensibilities" remained on the books.
"The solutions are draconian.
While, yes, drug offenders do get the short end of the stick, and more reforms are necessary for this population, the larger issue is that of draconian federal sentencing statutes which cut across many different groupings of crime; groupings not restricted to federal drug offenses.
That is because, on 13 November, the court announced that it would hear Whole Women's Health v Cole, a challenge to HB2, Texas's draconian anti-abortion statute.
In 2013, the state of Texas enacted one of the most draconian anti-abortion rights statutes in the country.
For all Pink Dot's success, and a general openness about homosexuality among many, especially younger, Singaporeans, the government still keeps one of the most draconian, colonial-era laws against homosexuality on the statute books.
A brief filed by four insurance trade groups declares: The district courts creation of fiduciary duties under the criminal mail fraud statute is the most sweeping, and draconian, revision of insurance law in recent memory.
Mr. Pabon was being consigned to a long and potentially dangerous imprisonment, the judge said, because of "the heedless use of mandatory sentencing statutes, and the intransigence of the government in pursuing this Draconian remedy".
This is all the more serious because Minnesota had the audacity to not only revise the terrorism statutes to hamper acts of civil disobedience but also to bring such draconian charges against the group's members before they even committed a criminal act.
