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[–] mcdowell_ag ago 

Making punishment more severe doesn't deter people - people assume they will get away with it, or just don't bother to think about the future. What works is fast and certain enforcement.

It's easy to see that gruesome punishment doesn't work. We have been telling people for years that smoking is pretty much signing up for death by torture, but people still smoke.