Georgi Gogia, director of Human Rights Watch's South Caucasus Division, said the "dramatic" punishments imposed on the police officers "could be a sign that there will be accountability for what happened on July 29".
Some texts, says scholar Wendy Doniger, "punish homosexual acts with very minor fines, in dramatic comparison with much more serious punishment for infringements of heterosexual customs (heavy punishment for rape, for instance).
The dramatic power Gretchen's cruel punishment reaches a tragic pitch that's among the most exalted in the history of cinema — then and now.
Nevertheless, some politicians believe that the right combination of incentives and punishments will produce dramatic improvement.
"I think the toughening of punishment corresponds to a dramatic increase in criminal violations and front-page stories".
They would involve Congress, the state department, individual states, and a dramatic overhaul in attitudes concerning drug use and punishment.
The Iraqi tribunal has the option of appointing non-Iraqi judges, and the political calculations about whom to appoint are complicated by the dramatic gap between European and American attitudes about capital punishment.
Author Kenneth A. Briggs, former religion editor for The New York Times, wrote that the Mansour case "was in many respects the most dramatic, but not the only, instance of a particular nun singled out for punishment".
His major novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868 69), The Possessed (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879 80)—are filled with riveting, often unstable characters and dramatic scenes.
One dramatic example came in 2008, in Baze v. Rees, which asked whether execution by lethal injection amounted to cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
