[Jacob]

"You will see public hangings, beheadings and torture. And you will also see that crime was far more rampant then."

You have a point. The same can be said with America as well. You have the Death penalty in some of your states, yet you still have quite a high crime rate.

But my theory is that it's like that because people are used to it. And if you're used to something you become inured to it.

Bring such things into this country, however, and crime will go down (i'm guessing that if you threaten somebody with being fully castrated and put into prison, crime would go down more than if you just threatened death).

We haven't had the death penalty for...erm...a while now. So if it were to be brought back and a mass of offenders were suddenly culled, it'd be a big shock to the would-be-offenders who may like having their head and neck attached.

EDIT -

"But that doesn't mean that there wasn't another way to get the same result."

I'm open to suggestions. Like i said, i only got to this way of thinking because i saw the punishments and i saw the crimes and they didn't add up and the filth were (are) beginning to think they could get away with it.