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Draconian punishment

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punishment so severe as to seem excessive for the crime being punished.

See also: Draconian



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Such an increase in the HHI would represent a dramatic reduction in the competitive balance of the conference in which the probate team played, and therefore the NCAA might avoid such draconian punishment, to include the Death Penalty.
Shaq received a one game suspension for using profanity in a televised post-game interview, and three games for throwing a wild haymaker at former Bull Brad Miller, so Kobe's two-gamer for a forearm shiver slots in nicely on the Draconian punishment scale of the image conscience NBA.
In a 1997 essay for Christianity Today, Colson argued in favor of "zero tolerance for any violation of public order," advocating draconian punishment for crimes like loitering.
 
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