After Kim Il Sung's death, in 1994, the regime suspended executions for a month, and throughout the following year it committed relatively few killings.
Congress and the White House may also grant a special dispensation to certain immigrants who are subject to deportation because they committed relatively minor crimes before 1996.
The reason, unspoken by Mr. Neal but confirmed by experts, is that relatively insignificant offenses committed by 17-year-olds are bringing dismissal by judges, the effect being savings in the court and corrections systems alike.
But others had trouble understanding why the report recommended such harsh punishment for those, like President Johnson Sirleaf, who had committed relatively minor transgressions, while granting pardon to a self-described mass murderer.
The challenge is to keep the pressure on the relatively few villains committed to keeping Mr. Mugabe in power, while providing some relief to the millions of victims of his catastrophic misrule.
"A warning given for a relatively trivial offence committed many years ago by a child, who has not reoffended, has no relevance to how that person could be safely employed to work as an adult".
Without a truth and reconciliation commission, flagrantly guilty parties are likely to use their power and money to evade discovery, while others who committed relatively minor offences (or no provable offences at all) may be ostracised from public life.
Thousands of prisoners — many of who committed relatively minor crimes — are stuck in British jails on an obsolete life sentence at an annual cost to the UK taxpayer of more than 119 million pounds ($180 million), a VICE News investigation has found.
Sony, which has sold about 2.7 million PlayStation 2 consoles in North America and another 7 million overseas, seems committed to relatively older players.
When it comes to mental health, only people who have been involuntarily committed––a relatively high bar are banned from buying guns under federal law.
