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But in practice, those who can afford to pay a fine or hire a lawyer are often able to avoid punishment altogether.
The model law also offers strategies to help authorities rewrite sentencing guidelines in such a way that judges have more latitude to consider mitigating factors when meting out punishment.
And in Ghana, lawmakers are discussing a bill that would end punishment for first-time drug offenders.
Europe, like America - indeed, like the entire capitalist world - must now become more hawkish in demanding prosecution and punishment of bosses who loot their companies.
What becomes clear from story after story in The Invisible War is a consistent – indeed, nearly identical – narrative of concealment, cover-up, and punishment of alleged victims, for whom justice was almost impossible to obtain through institutional channels.
This is a credible threat: May herself has pioneered the practice of revoking individuals’ citizenship, usually in the name of national security, but sometimes as a form of symbolic punishment.
This undoubtedly reflects a widespread impulse to mete out some kind of punishment against those who commit terrorist acts.
But this is precisely why punishment should be a matter for the criminal justice system, which guarantees due process in a way that a government office following vague criteria cannot.
The motion implicitly adopted the yardstick of collective punishment and a distinctly McCarthyite tone, demanding a sort of “disloyalty oath” from Israeli academics.
It follows that nine-year-old girls are also adults in criminal law, and subject to capital punishment for, say, converting to another religion.
The United Nations Convention on Torture explicitly forbids “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment,” so their use must be denied.
As Fed Vice Chairman Don Kohn said, ensuring that a few thousand investment bankers receive their just financial punishment is a non-starter when attempts to do so put the jobs of millions of Americans – and tens of millions outside the US – at risk.
Managers can easily move from firm to firm when things go badly, avoiding any punishment.
Yet, to my knowledge, none of those investigations so far has resulted in the criminal prosecution and punishment of any Israeli soldier or official for a human-rights abuse committed against a civilian in Gaza.
President Dmitri Medvedev, for example, regularly calls for extremists to be “burned to ashes,” and for terrifyingly broad punishment, including of those “washing linen and preparing soup for terrorists.”
Another analysis published by the BBC after the referendum found one of the strongest predictors of a Leave vote to be support for capital punishment.
Elsewhere, the stories of futility in the “war on drugs are more brutal: capital punishment for drug-related offenses; extra-judicial killings in the name of creating drug-free societies; drug users sent to labor camps as a form of “treatment”; and drug-using women handcuffed to beds during childbirth.
Moreover, the BJP had opposed interaction with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, pending satisfactory progress on the prosecution and punishment of the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 164 people and injured more than 300.
The intention was collective punishment, imposed partly in response to Hamas’s political control of Gaza.
Will collective punishment make them moderate, law-abiding helots?
As a result, the punishment will not fit the crime.
With such vicious cycles of crime, punishment and dis-investment in poor communities it is no surprise that the prison population has expanded to such an extent.
These black/brown/red brigades don't just promise investigations and some sort of punishment for Russia's privatized oligarchs and their allies in the bureaucratic den of thieves.
It should reach out to the UN in an exercise similar to those that , without providing for capital punishment , have brought to justice Slobodan Milosevic and the leaders responsible for the Rwandan genocide--and that tomorrow might bring to the dock Liberia's Charles Taylor and dozens of Khmer Rouge leaders.
And certain high-ranking Colombian military officers would have been exposed to such punishment as well.
There are large practical difficulties in achieving this, and the Russian proposal, which has now been embraced by US President Barack Obama, does not meet the Western demand for punishment.
Like an old-fashioned teacher, America argues that punishment is the best educator.
There is an argument, made by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, that a swift punishment might persuade Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to stop using chemical weapons and use “more banal ways to slaughter his people.”
Assad and his cohorts are encouraged by the world’s failure to respond effectively to their brutal suppression of the revolt in Homs, and have proceeded to inflict vicious punishment on its survivors as a warning to opponents elsewhere.
With practically half of Italy’s debt financed by European Treasury Bills – producing an effect similar to a reduction in the average maturity of its debt – a successor government would be all the more responsive to any punishment imposed by the EFA.
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