[armchairhacker]

Is the death penalty scarier than life in prison?

[sieste]

I'm not sure it was meant that way, but nice metaphor. For some students "academic death" might really be better than a life of being trapped in a system that they can only navigate by cheating.

[CoastalCoder]

I assume that depends on the individual.

But FWIW, my point was about very harsh punishments in general, not specifically the death penalty.