Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Roland
Perry gently breathed:

The objective is not to start hanging people left right and centre, but
only to do so for clear, serial offences.

This is all hopelessly idealistic in the real world of criminal justice
systems. Never mind, you are allowed to dream.

Well, TBH the criminal justice system is probably one of the placed we
really need to be as idealistic as possible - getting it wrong tends to
have very serious consequences, and not just regarding the death
penalty.

It's been a very interesting thread - thanks to all who contributed.

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