Officials built on that criticism with Sunday's draft law, a lengthy text that also extends punishments for other terrorism-related charges.
Of course, the urge to extend punishment to every sort of socially disapproved behavior, including texting in a crosswalk, is hardly a new phenomenon.
The interesting question, at the end of the day, then, is whether, given that institutions of punishment exist, there is a range of cases for which the instrumental costs of punishment exceed the benefits, but the intrinsic value of deserved punishment nonetheless justifies extending punishment to this range of wrongdoers.
This minimalism is a result of the fact that many of the merciful provisions in the bill contain exemptions or end up extending punishments to new groups of people.
Because the law extends such punishments over three generations, his sons and grandsons are also condemned.
But Americans would be wrong to extend this punishment to the people of Iraq, who have suffered so much already.
Like the Bush model, the Obama model also clearly allowed for combat with the press, sometimes extending to punishment, which was usually doled out by Gibbs.
In addition to Cameroon and the United Arab Emirates, which extended capital punishment to terrorist-related offences, Pakistan reversed a moratorium on the death penalty for civilians in December of 2014, following the Peshawar school massacre.
In recent decades, the Supreme Court has looked for ways to limit the death penalty, but it hears arguments today in a case that could reverse that trend — and extend capital punishment to additional crimes.
There are other states that extend capital punishment to 16-year-olds, but in Texas a 16-year-old charged with capital murder receives an automatic life prison term if convicted.
