There already is leniency for first-time offenders.
Quote:This is because first-time offenders are usually treated with more leniency than those who are habitual offenders (those who have offended more than once). It is often believed that first-time offenders are less likely to reoffend after committing their first crime when they have no other history of criminal offenses.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
