[infamouscow]

I would go further and say this is ideal for capital punishment.

Not because I think capital punishment deters such reprehensible behavior, but because it's ridiculous tax payers shelter and feed animals willing to do such horrible things. Those tax dollars are better spent on virtually anything else.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I think that has happened, a few times, in China. They can get pretty harsh, when it comes to punishments. Corruption (at least, the ones that get caught, or embarrass the Party) is also sometimes met with capital punishment.

Corruption is a huge problem, worldwide. We have plenty of it, in the US, but other nations almost have it in their constitution. Everyone just expects a little silver to cross their palms.

I had family that was very big on fighting corruption.

[thaumasiotes]

Two executives were executed in the followup to the Chinese scandal when baby formula was found to be intentionally adulterated with melamine. (A few hundred babies were hospitalized; six died.)

It seems safe to say that there is a deterrent effect.