Part of the payment is to be branded forever. This is not like speeding, or refusing to pay bills, the minor crimes that you cited earlier.
Since you seem to like biblical stuff, did your God let Cain know that he and his kind were to have a mark put on them after Cain killed Abel? Why can't our society emulate something God is supposed to have done in the name of justice?
That's why God gave us the death penalty, so that we could remove the pos vermin from society permanently, yet not have to provide for it either, when the funds and food could be better used for decent people.
If you'll read Genesis 4, you'll see that the purpose of that mark actually was to protect Cain from vigilante justice.
Dan