Posted by thunder1008 on 8/27/2010 5:24:00 PM (view original):
Dang. How would you punish a murderer, rapist or child molester?
Yeah, the ancient Greek Draco had the same problem....When he created what is reputed to be the first set of laws, he assigned Death as the penalty for almost every crime.
When asked why, he replied that he felt that the lesser crimes deserved it, and he didn't have anything worse than death to give out for the more serious crimes.
Hence, the term "draconian"