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== Real Life ==
* Non-lethal example: [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703315404575250220873756964.html This U.S. Supreme Court case] allows slamming the heel face door on "sexually dangerous" criminals on a federal level by allowing them to be kept imprisoned after their sentence is up. On the other hand, the Supreme Court found in [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703315404575250263178132480.html this case] that slamming the heel face door on teenagers who haven't killed anyone by giving them a sentence of life imprisonment without parole is "cruel and unusual punishment" that is constitutionally prohibited.
** That isn't this trope, in that the convict is not "beginning to realize that the way of evil is not the way".
* Sabino Arana Goiri (1865-1903) was a Spanish writer, philosopher, and political activist of Basque descent. It was he who founded the Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV), which was the first political party to strive toward an independent nation-state for the Basque people. He also harbored an obsessive loathing for any Iberian peoples who were ''not'' Basque, condemning them in his nationalistic tracts and arguing against intermarrying with them to such a degree that his attitude bordered on racism. (It should be pointed out that this was the 1890s, [[Values Dissonance|when racism was not only socially acceptable but also considered rational and scientific]]; and anyway, most of Arana Goiri's opponents shared similar attitudes.) Arana Goiri eventually began to moderate his extremist views,
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