"To maintain a penal sanction that is hardly ever applied has been ridiculous, and demeans the judicial system in the eyes of youth, " the commission majority said, referring to rarity of prison terms for marijuana offenders.
22.
The Centro de Ejecuci�n de Sanciones Penales Varonil Oriente ( Center for the Execution of Penal Sanctions for Men East ), more commonly called the Reclusorio Oriente ( East Prison ) was inaugurated in 1987 for adult males.
23.
This decree promulgated financial sanctions ( in the form of fines ) and penal sanctions ( in the form of imprisonment ) for those who continued to engage in the slave trade or to keep slaves as servants.
24.
The permissibility ( or not ) of penal sanctions in labour became an issue of " fundamental law ", in which it was questioned whether those sanctions or specific performance enforcements turned indentured servitude into " involuntary servitude ".
25.
International Congress of Comparative Law, Athens 1994, on Alternative Penal Sanctions in Greece, and at Preparatory Colloquium of AIDP on Organized Crime, Alexandria 1997 ); scientific counselor on criminological and penological matters at the Ministry of Justice, Athens 1990-93; mem.
26.
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction ( EMCDDA ) defines decriminalization as the removal of a conduct or activity from the sphere of criminal law; depenalisation signifying merely a relaxation of the penal sanction exacted by law.
27.
In general, only authors of " socially useful " works could exploit their copyrights; on " useless works " such as Church hymns no economic rights could be enforced; and authors of undesirable works faced administrative, or social, or even penal sanctions.
28.
In general, only authors of " socially useful " works were granted full copyrights; on " useless works " such as Church hymns no economic rights could be enforced; and authors of undesirable works faced administrative, or social, or even penal sanctions.
29.
Conversely, Christian Reconstructionism's founder, Rousas Rushdoony, wrote in " The Institutes of Biblical Law " ( the founding document of reconstructionism ) that Old Testament law should be applied to modern society and he advocates the reinstatement of the Mosaic law's penal sanctions.
30.
"In order for society to preserve freedom of the media, cases of libel or slander against journalists should be dealt with by a civil court, but should in no circumstances result in a penal sanction, " said a joint statement by the two groups.
