Hammurabi's Code

Today in Western Civilization, we learned about Hammurabi's Code, and we also pretended that we were judges from that period, sentencing people. We had to decide which punishment people should get for the crime they committed. When we shared them, there were so many different answers and people got very creative. For most of the crimes, I said they should have to go to jail for a couple years. One kid in the class said that they should have their left hand chopped off, but I think that is a bit excessive. Hammurabi wanted people to have a punishment that fit the crime, but nowadays the punishments are usually just jail time, sometimes the death penalty depending on the crime and state.