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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
->'''TV announcer:''' Now, Ms. Newbound, you are of course in favor of this new law.\\
'''Ms. Newbound:''' Absolutely. I just wish they would go one step further and include ''non''-moving violations.\\
'''TV announcer:''' ''Parking'' offences?\\
'''Ms. Newbound:''' Well, a crime is a crime. Why should we pay good money for jails just to keep criminals alive? Death to all crooks!
-->-- ''Film/HarrisonBergeron''

->''"Chief Justice, this city is in chaos! For social order, we need tighter reins! Incarceration hasn't worked as a deterrent. I say we expand execution to include lesser crimes!"''
-->--'''Judge Griffin''', ''Film/JudgeDredd''

->'''Dewey:''' What about the time when you woke up in the middle of the night and drank up all the milk? And when I got up the next morning, there was none left!\\
'''Edith:''' Dewey, you ''cheated'' on me!\\
'''Dewey:''' Oh, so ''I'm'' a cheater, but ''you'' can just drink up all the milk?
-->-- ''Film/WalkHardTheDeweyCoxStory''
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[[folder:Literature]]
->''"Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed-- would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper-- the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever."''
-->-- ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''

->''"The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. "OffWithHisHead" she said, without even looking round."''
-->-- ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''

->''"For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it."''
-->-- '''[[Literature/TheFourGospels James 2:10]]''', ''Literature/TheBible'' (NIV)

->"It's a quiet, orderly little town, for in order to prevent epidemics from spreading to the palace no brothels are allowed here, no streetwalkers, no theatres, and no beggars. Crimes are rare, because any offence committed here could be construed as lèse-majesté, and be punished with the "lingering death". And not even the most hardened criminal wants to risk being sliced to pieces slowly! Ordinary executioners take only two or three hours over the process, but those in the palace can keep their man alive for a couple of days, I am told."\\
The captain rubbed his nose reflectively, then added, "They are the best that can be had, of course. Anyway, the result is that all robbers, thieves and vagrant ruffians shun this area like the plague!"\\
"Then your job is simple, Siou. Just the administrative routine."\\
The captain sat down.\\
"No, sir," he said gloomily, "there you are wrong. Its very security from smaller criminals makes this area a proper paradise for the big ones! Suppose you were a wealthy crook with many personal enemies. Where better than here could you pass a quiet holiday? Here no assassin would ever dare to attack you. Or suppose you were the boss of an influential smuggling-ring, or of a secret criminal league? In your own territory you'd have to be on your guard day and night against killers sent by rival organizations. But here you could walk about freely without any fear of being molested."
-->-- ''[[Literature/JudgeDee Necklace And Calabash]]''
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
->''"Worse, under Har Ganeth law, here is but a single penalty for infraction: the transgressor is led in chains to the summit of the highest sacrificial pyramid and beheaded - there can only be one punishment in Khaine's chosen city."''
-->-- '''''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''''': ''Dark Elves Army Book (8th edition)''

->''"The punishment for sedition, like every other crime in the Dross Pits, is execution."''
-->--''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' card [[https://scryfall.com/card/one/109/sheoldreds-headcleaver Sheoldred's Headcleaver]]
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->''"The sheriff has asked me to read off the punishments for breaking each of her two-hundred and twenty-three laws, but I figured I'd save everyone some time and just say this: DEATH. The punishment for everything is death! So please, keep your head down and be cool!"''
-->-- '''Deputy Winger''', ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''

->''"The Capital Wasteland lacks a unified government, and [[AnarchyIsChaos any institutional system of crime and punishment]]. If you wrong someone, prepare to pay with your life."''
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' loading screen
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
->''"A crime is a crime. You gotta understand--humans, we all bend the rules a little. Not them. One of them breaks a rule, he's gonna break them all. Defective. They got no concept of being just a little bad."''
-->-- '''Doyle''' on the Tha-latta, ''The Lydian Option''
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[[folder:Web Original]]
->'''Principal:''' Well, because both of you were horseplaying in the bathroom, you're both in trouble.\\
'''Middle School Rebecca:''' ...Horseplay?\\
'''Principal:''' I'll be calling your parents today. Rebecca, you'll be getting five demerits. And Milly, normally, I'd give you five, as well, but because this is the ''second'' time I've seen you in my office this year, you'll be getting ten!\\
'''Rebecca:''' ''(crawls onto the desk)'' I HAVE ''SEVERAL'' OBJECTIONS! Let's get this straight! My crime, my ''punishable'' offense, was getting ''bitten'' while defending another kid! And the person who bit me would've gotten the ''exact'' same punishment as me, if it hadn't been her second offense! Excuse me, who hurt you?! […] I don't care who you are! There is a ''very'' big difference between tug-of-war to get stolen property back, and a full-blown bite that could've potentially ended in a ''hospital'' trip!
-->-- ''WebAnimation/LetMeExplainStudios'', "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QOYvWpYDr3Q&pp=ygUfYml0dGVuIHdoaWxlIGRlZmVuZGluZyBhIGZyaWVuZA%3D%3D Bitten While Defending A Friend]]"

->''"There is no sin greater than another in God's eyes. He sees a lie and a homicide the same way."''
-->-- '''sr. scholls''', [[http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=950 FSTDT]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
->''"Talkin' out of turn? That's a paddlin'. Lookin' out the window? That's a paddlin'. Starin' at my sandals? That's a paddlin'. Paddlin' the school canoe? Oh, you better believe that's a paddlin'."''
-->-- '''Jasper Beardly''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E21ThePTADisbands The PTA Disbands]]"
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[[folder:Real Life]]
->''"And Draco himself, they say, being asked why he made death the penalty for most offences, replied that in his opinion the lesser ones deserved it, and for the greater ones no heavier penalty could be found."''
-->-- '''Creator/{{Plutarch}}''' on Draco, [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece ancient Athenian]] legislator (who is [[TropeNamers the source]] of the adjective "draconian," by the way)

->''"It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death."''
-->-- '''William Blackstone''', ''Commentaries on the Laws of England''

->''"I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished; for if a robber sees that his danger is the same if he is convicted of theft as if he were guilty of murder, this will naturally incite him to kill the person whom otherwise he would only have robbed; since, if the punishment is the same, there is more security, and less danger of discovery, when he that can best make it is put out of the way; so that terrifying thieves too much provokes them to cruelty."''
-->-- '''Thomas More''', himself put to death

->''"What, after all, is the punishment for taking the Lord’s name in vain? It happens to be death (Leviticus 24:16). What is the punishment for working on the Sabbath? Also death (Exodus 31:15). What is the punishment for cursing one’s father or mother? Death again (Exodus 21:17). What is the punishment for adultery? You’re catching on (Leviticus 20:10). While the commandments themselves are difficult to remember (especially since chapters 20 and 34 of Exodus provide us with incompatible lists), the penalty for breaking them is simplicity itself."''
-->-- '''Sam Harris''', ''The End Of Faith''
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