It’s much, much more complicated than mere rehabilitation VS punishment/salvation. When sometime goes to prison for a minor drug offense—like this guy—what exactly are we “rehabilitating”? I seriously doubt he had a real addiction.
Perhaps for you. For this section of society I’m referring to, they would rather see this person put before their deity in order for ultimate judgement to be rendered.
In medieval England, executions were, as History says, conducted willy-nilly without any legal precedent. Starting with the reign of Henry VIII in the early 1500s, the death penalty became codified into an eventual, expansive 222 crimes. Some 72,000 people were executed in 16th century England alone for crimes such as treason, marrying a Jew, cutting down a tree, and (you ready?) not confessing to a crime.
Perhaps for you. For this section of society I’m referring to, they would rather see this person put before their deity in order for ultimate judgement to be rendered.
https://www.grunge.com/305837/which-crimes-merit-the-death-penalty-in-the-united-states/
A lot of people would like to go back to these times.
Ugh. You’re right, of course. We’re surrounded by lizard-brained, uncivilized cave people who still believe in fairy tales.
Tell them that their religion is a fantasy without evidence, though, and now you’re somehow the unreasonable one.