Just one anniversary Idea
Again disregarding my preference for staying away from certain “hot” issues that attract current national attention from the more qualified, I nevertheless, feel obliged to repeat my own perspectives on matters related to capital punishment.
Up front let me be genuinely different. If a society opts to abandon the death penalty, I say there should be flogging and/or hard labour for the more heinous crimes and convictions. Why? Because a society’s career criminals, having studied the “justice landscape”, will conclude that their most sordid fatalistic deeds will merely “earn” them prison time with meals, medical attention and recreation. And, who knows, parole.
I’m aware of the anti-death penalty arguments: it’s no deterrent; it’s as inhumane as what the murderers do; it’s against all the UN declarations, conventions and agreements many member countries have
