A man is sentenced to five years in prison for walking across his neighbor’s lawn. In this example, we can say that the punishment is

Walking across a neighbor’s lawn is a minor offense, so a five-year prison sentence would be far more severe than the wrongdoing warrants. A punishment that is excessively harsh compared with the crime is disproportionate. The correct choice is “disproportionate to the crime.”

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