Know better about what?Or consistency, or more effective rehabilitation. Dismembering is barbaric Sunni. You are a Convert, you should know better. Or do you need an intervention???
All of this babying criminals is a huge failure.
They need to fear the punishment more than their desire to commit the crime.
Well here the focus is more of Government by the consent of the Governed, and we don't want that. Sit down now, I know this is a big shock for you. We forsake the old way's for new new way's, in the hope that we all learn from our mistakes and learn to give back more than we take. Being Handicapped over youthful errors is wasting life and potential. Some of us believe that the Individuals purpose for being outweighs, the tangent's the individual may create, and for the most part, is redeemable. An Eye for an Eye, started out with Hammurabi, which predated even Moses. We have come a long way since then. I don't think you really want to go back to that code.