No one should face arrest for peacefully expressing opinions, much less corporal punishment and prison.
John Deutch, the former C.I.A. director, and Alberto Gonzales, the former Attorney General, both faced much less stringent punishment after taking classified documents home without authorization.
That is the maximum fine for a violation of federal conflict-of-interest rules, but it is much less than the punishment Mr. Barasch would have faced had the Justice Department pursued a criminal case.
Any effort to get to the bottom of what happened — much less impose some real punishment on Moscow — will be subjugated to the imperative of "working constructively with Russia".
Both resolutions will require Chinese support, and so far China has not acknowledged North Korean culpability, much less discussed sanctions or other punishment.
Mr. D'Alamberte permitted Mr. Warrick to rejoin the football team before doing the community service, reasoning that the punishment was much less severe than jail time.
The activists have spent the last decade assisting Palestinians at protests, and will often step in front of Palestinian demonstrators when the police or Israeli Defence Forces appear, aware that their arrest and punishment will be much less severe than that of a Palestinian. .
A profoundly-felt well of respect for the Cambodian colleagues who did their job day in day out, with much greater chance of punishment than we did and much less chance of a significant reward.
Acts of punitive deprivation must be imposed on each convicted offender without the comfort of believing, much less knowing, that the purposes for which the system of punishment was designed and maintained will really be advanced by inflicting a given punishment.
Much of this decline has come from states like Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina which still have capital punishment on the books but impose it much less frequently than in the past.
