Wednesday, May 06, 2020

There are people for whom a public flogging

followed by a trip to the gallows would be very appropriate.

2 comments:

mark leigh said...

A short sharp lesson in pain as punishment for a crime or years immured in a brutish university of crime and hatred. The humane action is not to create continuing misery but to issue the correction and move on with life. I hate prisons as the worst possible solution to criminal punishment. Prison is pointless punishment in the name of "correction" . For those self-evidently deserving of death the sentence should be carried out immediately or as you recommend in this case as a punctuation to the lashes. The evolution of punishment into nothing but time as a punishment has removed the balance from justice and punishes both victim and criminal.

Francis W. Porretto said...

This is what you get when savages walk free among decent people.

Time was, rape was a death-penalty offense everywhere. We understood the gravity of the matter back then. The streets were safer, too.