What do you think traffickers should do once they are caught?

Any civilized society abhors traffickers. According to Article 240th of the Criminal Law, whoever abducts and sells women and children shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined. Under any of the following circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to death and his property shall be confiscated: (1) the ringleader of the group that abducts and sells women and children; (2) Abducting and selling more than three women and children; (3) raping a trafficked woman; (4) luring or forcing trafficked women to engage in prostitution or selling trafficked women to others for forced prostitution; (5) Kidnapping women and children by violence, coercion or anesthesia for the purpose of selling; (6) Stealing infants and young children for the purpose of selling; (7) Causing serious injury, death or other serious consequences to abducted women, children or their relatives; (8) Trafficking women and children abroad. Abduction and trafficking in women and children refers to one of the acts of abducting, kidnapping, buying, selling, picking up and transferring women and children for the purpose of selling.

However, with the development of economy and society, people pay more and more attention to their own safety, so they pay more and more attention to human trafficking. Therefore, many people think that the punishment for traffickers in criminal law is still too light and traffickers should be executed. Is it really necessary to impose the death penalty on traffickers? Let's discuss it below.

Civilization is a sign of a country's progress. In a civilized society, it will basically give people a chance to turn over a new leaf, because it not only reflects the humanistic care of a civilized society, but also helps to prevent things from further developing into malignant ones. The same is true of traffickers. Strict criminal law does help deter criminals, but if all traffickers are sentenced to death, then when their crimes are exposed, traffickers will put all their eggs in one basket and take risks. When they face arrest, they will take the child's card as a pawn card. What's more, they may break the jar and think that they are all dead anyway, so it is very likely that their children will die with him, which puts them in a more dangerous situation.

Secondly, the deterrent effect of any harsh criminal law is limited, just like the harsh criminal law of the Qin Dynasty. Although it was able to shock the people at first, it eventually led to a wide range of illegal activities and the demise of the Daqin Empire. The ancients also said that people are afraid of death if they are not afraid of death. The biggest purpose of our criminal law is not to punish, but to persuade people to be good and educate people, which is also the fundamental difference between good law and evil law.

There is also that any severe criminal law can not fundamentally solve the problem. Just like buying and selling animals, there is no killing without buying and selling. Traffickers exist because there is a market demand for human trafficking. In order to fundamentally solve the problem of human trafficking, we need to start from the root causes. Only when there is no market demand for human trafficking can human traffickers have the soil to survive.

It is precisely out of humanistic care and the need to eradicate human trafficking that the national criminal law does not impose the death penalty on traffickers.