A suspension of 50 games is the punishment listed in baseball's Joint Drug Agreement, a policy formed both by MLB and the Players Unionn, for first time offenders.
Nor am I specifically advocating the other punishments listed in a new scholarly paper on the fate of Mayan scribes who fell into the hands of an enemy king.
The top hits include a Wikipedia page ("part of a series on Capital punishment") featuring a list of the last-meal requests of "notorious condemned prisoners," mostly in the U.S. and in the past century; several collections of photographs depicting recreations of some of those meals; and dozens of articles on the subject of what prisoners awaiting execution are fed before they die.
Those punishments lead the list of draconian proposals.
The drug policies of the other three sports list specific punishments for repeat offenders.
In a debate in Athens in 428 B.C., as recorded by Thucydides, a certain Diodotus asked: "Why should men have exhausted the list of punishments in search of enactments to protect them from evildoers?... Either some means of terror more terrible than this must be discovered, or it must be owned that this restraint is useless".
The list of punishments, which are separate from the numerous calls for Green to be stripped of his knighthood in the wake of the collapse of BHS, are derived from the template prepared by the business, innovation and skills (BIS) select committee, which has just faced down a similar challenge to its authority from the Sports Direct founder, Mike Ashley.
When I ask parents "what have you tried to help change your child's behavior?" little breaks my heart more than hearing a long list of punishments.
The 1574 act was modelled on the English act passed two years earlier and limited relief to the deserving poor of the old, sick and infirm, imposing draconian punishments on a long list of "masterful beggars", including jugglers, palmisters and unlicensed tutors.
The 1574 poor law act was modelled on the English act passed two years earlier; it limited relief to the deserving poor of the old, sick and infirm, imposing draconian punishments on a long list of "masterful beggars", including jugglers, palmisters and unlicensed tutors.
