Over punishing is a sin,This is the nation you wanted. You asked for it you got it....Toyota! If a homemaker in the 1960's let her 8 year old daughter go down to the park with a playground to play with friends and her daughter went into a public bathroom and was molested and a parent today in 2019 did the same thing, would there be a difference in either parent being charged or not being charged with a crime for not being there? The guy who shot the perp was not a white guy. You got the white guys by the ballz. He don't care.My husband, who is the most honest person in the world today, stole a comic book from a convenient store in his neighborhood when he was around 7 years old. A day later, his father saw him with the comic book and asked him where he got it from and how did he pay for it? My hubby confessed that he took it. My father in law, walked him down to the store to return it to the store clerk, and arranged for him to sweep the floor in the store for two weeks after school, and also grounded him.
Thank God the clerk didn't shoot and kill him!
An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
A life for a life
Was a commandment of Restriction.... restrict the use of OVER punishment, that existed at the time... the same goes for today, and our justice system is rooted in it.
The greater the crime, the greater the punishment.
Stealing a beer, does not justify the punishment of death. PERIOD.