Bring back the public gallows and watch the crime rate instantly drop.
If only it were that easy. I remember reading how the public spectacle of a pickpocket being hanged was one of the most likely places to find pickpockets plying their trade.
It is the certainty, not the severity, of punishment that deters crime.
21 posted on 02/24/2004 2:28:12 PM PST by FormerLib
("Homosexual marriage" is just another route to anarchy.)