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She favored alternative punishments, longed to help troubled kids, worried about Draconian anti-immigration policy, and disliked the death penalty, mandatory minimum sentences, and the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity.
The editorial concluded: "A survey this week shows that fewer than 6 per cent of Muscovites want a draconian state of emergency.
The code gave the five major and three minor studios draconian power over stars.
Also, a pair of articles on juvenile crime: One criticizes the recent trend to charge kids as adults and confine them with adult prisoners, saying that such Draconian treatment hardens rather than reforms young criminals.
Both parties support the drug war and its attendant police-state apparatus--no-knock raids, forfeiture of property of people who haven't been convicted of anything, Draconian sentences, peeing on command as a requirement for getting or holding jobs, etc.--the latest thing is they want to inflict on Florida a genetically engineered fungus that's supposed to kill marijuana plants, although no one can guarantee it won't be an ecological disaster; these people are crazy!