Sentence examples for severity of punishment from inspiring English sources

Yet Mr Yadav commented not only on the severity of punishment.

This has repercussions – there is evidence that certainty and speed of punishment are more important factors in deterring crime than the severity of punishment.

"In traffic safety science, the body of research that's been widely documented shows consistency of enforcement is more important than severity of punishment," Ms. Blakey said.

In recent weeks, in a series of sentencing hearings, the prosecution and defence have been lobbying the judge over the severity of punishment the 25-year-old soldier should face.

If the history of murder contains a lesson, Beccaria believed, it was this: "The countries and times most notorious for severity of punishment have always been those in which the bloodiest and most inhumane of deeds were committed".

Robert D. Bernardi, the county prosecutor, said the men would be charged with committing a hate crime, a count that would increase the severity of punishment if the men were convicted.

It has sharply increased both enforcement and the severity of punishments.

Abu Mohammed Hussam, one of the founders of the Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) activist group, described the severity of punishments for being caught smoking cigarettes.

But while the statistics and a separate analysis by Public Advocate Mark Green show that the overall number of officers being disciplined by the department has increased, the severity of punishments has not, and in fact has dipped in some instances.

Most commentators have regarded this as an almost inevitable climax to what they see as a deterioration in Cook's conduct during the third voyage, especially an increase in the severity of punishments.

The quantity and severity of punishments were reduced, the prison system was improved, and the first attempts were made to study the psychology of crime and to distinguish between classes of criminals.