[Angus]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

The country would just flourish if we murdered anyone suspected of being a criminal now wouldn't it?

That's a disingenuous statement - who said anything about killing "suspected" criminals. How about confining punishment to "convicted" ones? I guarantee the country would indeed flourish if we cleared out the PROVEN murderers, rapists and paedophiles.

Since execution is no longer an option, how about actually locking them up and throwing away the key. In fact the shortness of sentences has less to do with the moralistic arguments of being compassionate blah blah blah, and more to do with the economics of keeping these criminals long term in jail. That's the bottom line, and why there is no morality in the judicial system. Criminals who have committed the most horrendous crimes are freed to re-offend because it costs too much to keep them locked up, and since extermination is not an option what else is there?

Not one dissenter on here has given any viable options.