Sentence examples for softer punishment from inspiring English sources

But even with this new shift toward softer punishment, racial disparities continue.

"But at this stage we should see this verdict as a softer punishment, given Kosenko's mental condition".

Nor does it appear that all school officials support softer punishments.

The district's earlier efforts to mete out softer punishments led to a 37percentt drop in the number of suspensions and expulsions in the last year.

He dismissed claims from some critics that prison is a soft punishment.

Answering journalists in London, Vladimir Putin promised the members of Pussy Riot soft punishment and formally he wasn't lying: the prosecution asked for three years in prison and the court gave them just two.

"In October 2014, Asic chairman Greg Medcraft declared that Australia was a 'paradise' for white-collar criminals because of its soft punishments of corporate offences, calling on the government to give the regulator the power to impose harsher jail terms and bigger penalties for white-collar crime," Bowen said.

Their focus was on soft punishments, disparaging comments college officials made to survivors, fraternities making rape jokes, and alleged retaliation for criticizing their schools on these issues.

But Mr. Gore is so afraid of reviving the old Democratic label of being soft on capital punishment that he can't capitalize on the issue despite fresh evidence that the administration of the death penalty is seriously flawed.

He produced a list of 10 death row inmates whose executions he believed had been unnecessarily delayed and spent the closing days of the campaign attacking Democratic incumbent Lawton Chiles for being soft on capital punishment.

The estate has become a Sisyphean prison yard for Nashe and Pozzi, with Flower and Stone as unreachable gods (Flower's name perhaps gesturing at God's soft side, Stone's at punishment).