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Poor women, I have trouble coming up with a suitably harsh punishment for the people that deface them like that for essentially no good reason.

The Iranians seem to be able to:

Iranian newspapers say a court has sentenced a man who blinded a woman with acid also to be blinded with acid under the country's Islamic law.
Thursday's reports in several newspapers, including the Kargozaran, say 27-year-old Majid confessed to attacking Ameneh Bahrami in 2004 to dissuade anyone from marrying the woman he loved.
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Sun Nov 30th, 2008 at 05:35:11 AM EST
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I guess my problem with an eye for an eye is that I don't want to descent to the level of cruelty of the criminal.

I guess I just don't have the stomach for criminal justice.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Nov 30th, 2008 at 06:41:53 AM EST
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As I've noted before, the Finnish penal system specifically excludes any sense of punishment, and devotes itself (quite successfully)  to rehabilitation.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Nov 30th, 2008 at 06:47:44 AM EST
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