The person already suggested an alternative: execution. That’s what human societies did for those crimes for thousands of years after all. The replacement of e

The person already suggested an alternative: execution. That’s what human societies did for those crimes for thousands of years after all. The replacement of execution with prison is relatively modern, pre-industrial societies couldn’t afford to run prisons and punished using capital punishment, slavery, or exile instead. (Of course we did switch for a reason, prison was thought to be more humane than the above)