Violent criminals wont be scared by acts of violence. Do gangs stop shooting at each other, because the others shoot back? No they don., Violence cannot be solved with violence. if you start hanging people in town square. Scaring someone into not being a violent, or bad person, is not the way to solve anything. I dunno how many people commenting on this thread have actually been locked up for a length of time, but criminals do not think the system coddles to them, maybe a select few. But the majority constantly feel they are being screwed over, which most of the time they are, by their attorneys and such. Ive been on the wrong side of the law in my life, and have paid for it, and now I have a job, and build trucks. I dont hurt people, never did, but a problem is a problem. you cant look at one different than the other. The way the law works in california. I could threaten someones life, be sent to prison, given a strike, get out, get a dui, and injure myself, dui with injury, 2nd strike, go to prison, get out, and get in a domestic case with my wife, small issue that usually gets blown out of proportion, 3rd stirke. Now im doing life in prison, and I have never commited a violent act, or harmed anyone, at all. You are paying for people like that to be locked up.Sure the law works to help keep ciolent people out, but the majority of life offenders in cali u r paying for, r 3 strike offenders, think of that before u talk of hangings.