An applications of laws that are excessively harsh and severe. Strict, extreme, drastic, stringent, tough, cruel, oppressive, ruthless, relentless, punitive; authoritarian, despotic, tyrannical, repressive.
I just read an AP article via Yahoo News that describes current New York drug laws as "draconian" implicated by former governor Nelson Rockefeller. Current guv David Patersen and legislative leaders have agreed to ease drug laws.
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