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Originally Posted by Ramrod
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Very true, but how do you suggest getting around it?
The trouble with laws like "Three strikes and you're out" is that, as the Americans have discovered, people are sentenced to 20 years in jail for stealing a pizza.
Or you can try the Texas method of no clemency for capital offences; the problem there is that people who can't afford good lawyers get landed with some incompetent to defend them and are then executed even though innocent. Of course, if you're willing to accept the occasional innocent, poorer citizen being excuted then there's no problem. Although, again, some US states are finding that executing minors and the mentally incompetent does tend to stick in the gullet.