I'd like to go back to the "organ farm" suggestion, because it's one that has shown up in sci-fi stories from time to time, and modern medicine is approaching the point where it could be possible.

The problem is that, as people in our society become more and more inured to the idea that someone else is there to provide "spare parts," then the crimes for which this punishment is the accepted punishment will gradually become lower and lower in their "threshhold," so that eventually, you could be sentenced to dismemberment for what are now misdemeanors.

Talk about a controlled society! Too many parking tickets, and bam! there go your eyes, or your spleen, and you'll have no recourse to remedy, since you were one of those who helped lower the bar for which crimes led to which punishments. Wouldn't that give the government a real hold on your short hairs?

Literally!

Bob C.