Its who to lock up. Prison space is expensive and we ought to reserve it for the worst of the worst and those who constitute an ongoing danger to society.
I think everyone convicted of a crime will be assigned points based on how bad they were.
When the prisons get full, execute the one with the most points to make space for the next convict.
This will motivate prisoners and non prisoners to go straight, because if carried to the extreme, a prisoner could get executed for a parking ticket.
Of course, I don’t think it would come to that!
We need to deter’s today’s potential offenders by punishing yesterday’s actual offenders. Is that too complicated to see?