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An Iraqi couple is charged in Germany with keeping and abusing Yazidi girls as slaves (abcnews.go.com)
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The were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria between October 2015 and December 2017, the prosecutor said in a statement. They allegedly kept a 5-year-old Yazidi girl as a slave starting in late 2015, and a 12-year-old from October 2017.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It is impossible to be 100% certain that someone commited a crime; in order to be found legally guilty in many countries, the standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt" and not "zero doubt."

I am against this idea for the same reason as I am against the death penalty in the US, along with the reason you already stated in your comment (Red Scare in the US, gulags in the USSR, China, North Korea, etc.). 4% of people on death row in the United States are innocent.

Also let's be real, if the person who commited the crime was extremely rich, then they wouldn't be paraded around shit.

I definitely understand the want to bring back tarring and feathering or public gallows, but there's a reason society moved on from those ideas; too much mob mentality in those situations, and there isn't a way to 100% guarantee that the person being punished is a criminal. Now granted, it's not like convicted criminals are treated well today outside of very specific cases like in Norway.