I’ve been thinking—the US has by far the largest percentage of its population in jail for nonpolitical reasons. Yet, we still have a lot of crime.That's because we house them, educate them, and feed them well. Where other countries treat them like animals, beat them, execute them or chop off their hands etc....You'll notice the beatings, the execution rate or the lopping off of extremities or the prison conditions is never mentioned in the stats you were led to beleive about how cruel we are.
A friend of mine used to say that sometimes a little Islamic justice is what’s called for.