The Scarlet Letter: Ways People Are Punished
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Many criminals today serve their time in prison and are then set free.
Most of them go on to commit other crimes, without learning the lesson
their punishment was meant to teach. the worst punishment possible is
torture and to live with ones own guilt.
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is ....
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.... people
in the mafia are caught and go to jail. Most of them do not go for their
full life but for a couple of years. When they do get out of prison they
are still in the mafia. The only thing they learn from being in prison is
to cover their tracks up better. People should pay for what they do and be
punished properly. For example, if a man rapes a woman he should be
castrated. This way people would have fear and not commit crimes.
Torture is also a better punishment rather then dea ....
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