The commenters on ADN are toxic. Calls for caning, cutting limbs off. Lack of any sort of imagination or thought. Ugh. I hope this paper folds just so this dumpster fire goes out. 

You all are insane and I'm not using hyperbole. You'd rather become a 3rd world country in terms of civil liberties than have some compassion for a criminal and you want to keep banging your collective heads against the wall that is throwing petty thieves into jail. Don't you realize that it doesn't work? It just makes the problem worse. But you want your pound of flesh. 

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin