If they just hung the first shoplifter of the week in front of the store and left them there for a week, it wouldn’t take long before there weren’t any shoplifters.
Much like with illegal immigration, we as a society simply do not have the will to do what it would take to stop the many social dysfunctions plaguing us.
On the plus side, many of our new immigrants are coming from societies where every crime carries the death penalty, to be meted out by the angry mob.
Good idea.