Remember! A Snatcher/Holdupper has an average of 5-10 victims killed.....
I'm going to go ahaid and say CITE?
Sure, these people are thieves and snatchers, but their crimes aren't serious enough to warrant anything near death. I find it ironic that people are willing to trade in instances of robbery and snatchings for MURDERS - actual people being killed. There's an appropriate punishment for theft, and it's not the death sentence.
Now, should these petty thieves graduate and manage to kill someone, then they cease being thieves and become murderers, and THEN they deserve death. We don't punish anyone because they
might do something, we punish them on what they
have done. Punishing people based on possibility at best strikes me as rather stupid, and at worst incredibly dangerous.
Plus, anyone notice that all these salvagings only happen to people who are useless, poor and inconsequential? Nobody EVER tries to kill that corrupt general, visiting European pedophile or drug-running Chinese expat. Why is that?