I kinda wish we'd go back to those simple, wholesome consequences.
Steal, lose a hand. Beat your spouse, get a beating and lose an arm. Scammers would be stripped of ALL assets, and thrown naked in the streets. They would have a mark tattooed on their back, so that all would know what they did as they ran like cowards from the consequence of their actions; their tongue would be cut out so they could tell no more lies. It is not justice to put all the Bernie Madoffs of the world in the posh apartments where they serve their sentence. It is not justice when there are honest people that would die to have such luxuries. Justice would be exposure to the REAL world, and the people they have harmed.
Celebrity justice, instead of being half of what anybody else would get, would be triple the penalty. After all, they are influential people and should conduct themselves wisely.
And where the death sentence is to be issued, public executions without all the legal crap necessary for the lethal injection. Hangings. Rope was good enough for old-time criminals, it's good enough for the ones we have now.
Our society is weak of will and stomach.