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WotD: Get off (easy)
You do the crime, you do the time, as the saying goes, but many people feel criminals get off easy.
There is considerable debate about the appropriate punishment for any particular crime when it comes to crime and punishment.
For Christians, the Old Testament says an eye for an eye.
In other words, the punishment should be equal to the crime.
In modern times, we try to be more civilized.
Western countries try to combine discipline with rehabilitation.
This is the main reason why six of the remaining G7 countries do not have the death penalty.
Countries without capital punishment believe when the state puts a murderer to death; they remove the possibility of them rehabilitating themselves.
Not all citizens agree.
The ones who disagree believe that murderers get off easy because they can continue to live, whereas their victim’s lives were cut short.
The idea of getting off easy is either to avoid punishment or to face a less severe penalty than is deserved.
For example, a murderer in Canada could get a prison sentence of 25 years with the possibility of parole after 19 years.
This means that after serving 19 years in prison, they could be released early if they were good prisoners and can prove they’ve changed, understand what they did and will never do it again.
Compared to a few decades ago, they can get off easy.
The last executions in Canada were carried out on December 11, 1962, at 12:02 am.
Japan still has the death penalty, and it was most recently carried out on July 6 and 26 when a total of 13 men were put to death for the March 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
Whether you support capital punishment or not, you must agree that these people did not get off easy.
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