One bill calls for an immediate ban; the most lenient calls for a three-year phaseout.
But Mr. Beckwith said guidelines issued this year in his state, Massachusetts, were far too lenient, calling them "ripe for abuse".
Hezbollah officials have criticized the court as too lenient, calling the trials "ceremonial" and the sentences "scandalous".
A dissident union official who attended Mr. Hughes's sentencing yesterday criticized the punishment as too lenient and called for Mr. Hill to be brought to trial.
On Friday, hundreds of Sudanese in Khartoum, the capital, protested what they considered a lenient punishment and called for her to be put to death.
This results in ten attitude variables, which we have called Lenient attitudes towards sick leave, Lenient norms towards sick leave, Being stressed, Low motivation, Low work satisfaction, Low work ethic, Gender equal attitudes, Lenient towards cheating, Negative towards welfare state and Risk-averse preferences.
Marine A's guilty verdict led to a showing of public support for the Marine, with people creating social media groups and online petitions alternately asking that he be given a lenient sentence and calling for his release.
With big banks inching closer to a settlement over allegedly improper foreclosures -- one that critics call too lenient -- progressive groups are calling on President Obama to get tougher on Wall Street.
The corporate call for lenient policies on high-income individuals comes as lawmakers from both political parties call for higher tax revenue as part of any deficit-reduction package.
A statement the anonymous victim read aloud in court went viral after being posted on BuzzFeed, an online petition is calling for the lenient judge's removal, observers have called Turner's case a glaring example of white privilege, and Turner himself is still casting about for excuses, calling his crime a result of college "party culture".
