« Reply #29 on: December 21, 2017, 04:47:49 PM »
You know, I've had an "inkling" that taking away the very visible public shame and humiliation, like flogging or tarring and feathering, has diminished the incentives to not do wrong.
I'm not recommending going back to those punishments...I don't know enough about all the implications to make any recommendation...just an observation...
I believe public executions were a crime deterrent. If we had them televised it might get through to the people who need to be shown that actions have consequences, and serious actions have serious consequences.

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