The Prisoner's Dilemma - Essay Review

In the essay "The Prisoner's Dilemma" Stephen Chapman writes that the Muslim punishment systems and the United States are both barbaric in some way. The prison system in the United States only make criminals do prison time whereas the Muslim system dismembers a criminal's body. The author states that the Muslim system teaches a criminal a lesson quicker than doing prion time behind bars in the U.S. system. Disagreeing with the author's thesis the Muslim system is more barbaric than the U.S. system.

As the author states,"Imprisonment is the universal way of punishing criminals in the United States. Imprisonment in the United States is supposed to deter people from going to prison. The Muslim's don't need to do this. They only need retribution and general deterrence. It doesn't seem to work because people are always losing a limb and getting life sentences.

I served time in Alabama State prison. I was convicted of harassment communication. My freedom was taken away from me in 2014. I had no problem with doing prison time because I did it. Just happy I wasn't in a Muslim country where I could lost one of my limbs.

The Muslim country is a very harsh and gruesome way to punish its people. For the crime I committed here in the United States I may have lost my head. What person can be in their right mind after witnessing someone getting their head chopped off? That is a horrific way of being punished.