| I also think that we saw a bit of truth in all of the 17th and 18th century death penalty stuff. It scared the crap out of people. "If I preach a religion other than the government, I get beheaded?" That WILL discourage people from doing that crime, though I can't back that because we have never fully abolished it, so I have nothing to base it off of.
I believe that contributes to why they do it. |