There are no mitigating circumstances or factors to award a lesser punishment.

They all received either lesser punishment from the courts or rewards that were not disclosed to the jury.

A lesser punishment would have been a private letter.

The stocks were a lesser punishment where a criminal was held in a public place usually by the feet.

Therefore the killing of Kirk will be a lesser punishment than to let him live.

They send you there at night for lesser punishment.

But he has said that he would support a lesser punishment, like censure.

Instead they surrendered themselves without a fight in hopes of having a lesser punishment from the Roman army.

Under Article 88, he could have faced dismissal or received a lesser punishment like a letter of reprimand.

Separate and lesser punishments exist by statute in many jurisdictions.