For a pickpocket who has served half of a two-year sentence, it would be excessively harsh to insist on the sentence being served in full if that meant that he would die in prison, rather than with his family.
En el caso de un carterista que ha cumplido la mitad de una condena de dos años, sería excesivamente severo insistir en que la pena se cumpliera en su totalidad si eso significara que moriría en la cárcel, y no con su familia.