I think fixing the sentencing in the USA requires first to overcome the fixation on good and evil and sin which in turn requires overcoming the abrahamistic rel

I think fixing the sentencing in the USA requires first to overcome the fixation on good and evil and sin which in turn requires overcoming the abrahamistic religions. If you are determinined someone is evil, you are willing to sentence them irrationally harshly based on that. If, however, your guiding principle is, that the justice system is a tool of society to keep peace and minimize injustice (among other things) then you will come to more nuanced judgments. There is no good and evil. These are made-up categories and super subjective. We can unmake them, i.e. make them less powerful on the political level.