Reply To: Reinstitute corporal punishment as a legal penalty

LC,

1. Demanding those convicted be sent to prison is a far greater form of bloodthirsty than insisting the penalty be lashings instead of prison. I assure that even convicts would prefer 38 lashings than 8 years in prison.

2. Inhuman levels of penalties that were practiced is neither being advocated nor relevant to this discussion.

3. The non-Jewish justice system is completely unreliable to assume their convictions (or acquittals) are fair or just. Nevertheless, lashings are a far more humane criminal penalty than imprisonment.