[Gen.Blather]

“And if voter fraud was made a capital offense, we’d have a lot less of it.”

The problem with jailing people for non-violent crimes is the annual cost for each prisoner is enough could send your kid to Harvard for a year. We need some alternative punishments. The other issue is space. Prisons are crowded with people so violent that if they’re out and about they’ll be hospitalizing or killing innocent citizens.

[mewzilla]

Who said anything about jailing?

[mewzilla]

I just checked.

Seditious conspiracy isn’t a capital crime.

That needs to change.

I’m not picky about the form of capital punishment used.

[USS Alaska]

The problem with jailing people for non-violent crimes is the annual cost for each prisoner is enough could send your kid to Harvard for a year. We need some alternative punishments. The other issue is space. Prisons are crowded with people so violent that if they’re out and about they’ll be hospitalizing or killing innocent citizens

A CAPITAL OFFENSE is one where the penalty is death, so jailing will be a short term cost.

FRY a couple of ballot stuffers, and it will be...problem solved.

Even demonRATs don't want to die for a couple of freebies paid for stuffing the ballot box.

[NorthMountain]

We need some alternative punishments.

Flogging, the stocks, the pillory, the scold's bridle, keelhauling ...

[C210N]

the annual cost for each prisoner is enough could send your kid to Harvard for a year. We need some alternative punishments....

My takeaway - send the prisoner to Harvard. For at least a year.

That'll teach 'em.

[_longranger81]

Cremation would address the space issue rather well.