We need to revert to the biblical guidance that the punishment fit the crime. The OT notion, “An eye for eye...” was not savagery, it was an admonishment that the victim could extract no greater toll from the criminal than was done to them. Hence, most matters were handled as civil infractions, with an insult redressed through monetary (or livestock) payment. The problem with our justice system is that ANY conviction, no matter how minor has grave extra-judicial consequences that exceed the infraction. For most people, you lose your livelihood, potentially your home... all the investments you made in life are cancelled because of something as venial as a neighbors frightened chicken. The remedy is to redefine crime as only things that are “criminal”, e.g. acts in which there is an active malicious intent to do harm, and civil infractions as everything else.
Amen to that.
An eye for an eye would have meant that the woman would have had to have one of her pets (dogs) killed in return.
Fortunately we have moved beyond that level of justice.
Moreover, in traditional Hebrew culture, it might have been the scholarly advice of a Rabbi for the owner of the dead chicken to invite the woman and her two dogs over for chicken dinner.