• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This is how it’s done.

    I think the death penalty is a bad policy overall and particularly bad in a court system that’s largely a rubber stamp for the prosecutor.

    At the same time, it is hard to pull together sympathy for a cartel so casual in their cruelty and brutal in their oppression.

    I would like to believe there’s a world in which all these people get the Jack Ma treatment, with varying lengths of time doing rice farming to give them all a taste of humility, and then they come back to society older and wiser and more peaceful. It’s a shame we don’t live in that place.

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      13 hours ago

      Jack Ma basically just shut up for months and then ended up in Tokyo. He had to pay a lot, but is still a billionaire.

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        11 hours ago

        Ma is back in Alibaba HQ, ostensibly making executive decisions for the firm. That was all over the news a week or two ago and has been, in part, the reason for the stock’s resurgence in price.

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        11 hours ago

        Ask anyone in an American prison what they think of work release relative to sitting in a filthy jail cell for months on end.

        Putting a cartel boss into a McDonald’s uniform is one of the kindest things you can do for them, under the modern criminal justice system.

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        14 hours ago

        “General Interest Work” (TIG) in France is an alternative/complement to incarceration for short sentences not exceeding 400 hours. It also requires consent from the defendant.
        I think in principle it’s fine, and it could be stretched for longer sentences. That’s quite a bit better than hanging people in my humble opinion. Sorry to quench your murderous fantasies. The US have something like that, but it’s exploitation for profit (their prisons are privately owned, it’s a subject in and of itself).