If draconian sentencing was a solution to crime the USA should be virtually crime free by now.
Harsh sentencing doesn't work. Its a sop to those who think it will and will vote for someone who recommends it.

Draconian sentencing does not apply to everyone otherwise Hillary Rotten Clinton would be in a federal penitentiary. As the pigs said in "Animal Farm": All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.