In the old days, a horse thief or cattle rustler would be hung, because the horse and the cattle were effectively a person’s life and livelihood.
This ransomware stuff is the same thing.
These people should be hung.................
You are much too kind. Drawing and Quartering, after being staked out in the sun on a red ant hill is too kind. . .
My suggestion is requiring them to be a Syphilis preservation area for the preservation of the Treponema Pallidum bacteria, then, after gelding them, sentencing them to lifetime confinement with no treatment for the syphilis. . . as cellmates to sadistic child molesters. . . have you ever seen a person suffering for tertiary and end stage Syphilis? it ain't pretty.
You make an EXCELLENT point. I would go a step further.
IMO, this is a form of warfare. These people have effectively declared war on the population of the US. Not only civilians, but often government offices are targeted.
In the old days, a country and its wealth was measured by the land it controlled. Today much of a country’s wealth it in the information it has. Ransomware attacks both the information and a country’s financial wealth.