SMH

Someone at Bruce Schneir's security blog actually suggesting the death penalty for stealing, say, a couple of buck's worth of copper.

Ah, capitalism, the system that values copper over the lives of human beings.

[FYI: I have a great deal of respect for Bruce Schneir's skills in security, especially information technology security, so I'm not ragging on him. But the comment threads on his articles are often a cesspool.]