1. Any unreasonable harshness or severity in laws: Sentencing an adolescent to jail for a minor offense of stealing a small notebook is considered to a dranconianism or an excessive penalty for such a misdemeanor.
2. Rigorous; unusually severe or cruel: The judge was accused of declaring a draconianism or an excessively harsh and severe punishment for such a minimum violation of walking across the street in the middle of the block when no cars were driving by from either direction.

Some countries have too many Draconianisms for relatively minor offenses.