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by javagram 2413 days ago
The person already suggested an alternative: execution.

That’s what human societies did for those crimes for thousands of years after all. The replacement of execution with prison is relatively modern, pre-industrial societies couldn’t afford to run prisons and punished using capital punishment, slavery, or exile instead.

(Of course we did switch for a reason, prison was thought to be more humane than the above)