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1. Offenders should receive their just deserts.
2. There was no sort of prison system to hold offenders so the most efficient way of ridding society of them was by putting them to death.
3. The fact that minor drug offenders are often given lengthy prison sentences while powerful drug lords evade capture and prosecution is a clear example of the proverb little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
4. The city council believed that creating more laws would prevent littering, but it had the opposite effect, as the saying suggests 'the more laws the more offenders'.
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