"This method of dealing with thieves [hanging] is both unjust and socially undesirable. As a punishment it’s too severe, and as a deterrent it’s quite ineffective. No penalty on earth will stop people from stealing, if it’s their only way of getting food. Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse" – Sir Thomas More (English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist)
Prisoners receive food, clothing, and […]
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