Punishment In Dantes Inferno

Throughout the years, our justice system has become less focused on giving criminals a just punishment and more focused on the fame and publicity that a large scale crime can allow. With every big criminal case, there are people rushing to read the headlines and learn everything there is about the criminal: their past, their living situation, their family, their mental state. We become so focused on the criminal that we often times overlook the crime itself. Headlines focus more on the people who pulled the trigger than the people whose blood is running in the streets. In a perfect world, our justice system would work to remember those who have been jeopardized and to punish those who dared to commit crimes in the first place and work to prevent …show more content…
For murder alone, Dante would have placed him among those who were Violent Against their Neighbors, leaving him to be submerged in boiling blood and shot by Centaurs until Judgement Day. However, he could also be placed among the Thieves, left to turn into a serpent then back into a human - stuck in a cycle of transformation for all eternity due to his thievery. Perhaps the most severe punishment that Dizon would face would be in Ptolomea, where the Treacherous to Guests and Hosts lie with half their face above a layer of ice, beat ceaselessly by the icy winds of Satan’s wings. Dante held very little sympathy for those that he punished, bringing attention to sinners only to make an example out of them. Sinners were not spared from punishment simply because they were famous, or well known. What fame he gave to sinners was, more than anything, in an attempt to teach others not to make their same …show more content…
Though in many cases his punishments may have seemed severe, the fact that he didn’t spare even infamous figures from punishment was admirable. Had I been able to decide my own punishment for Dizon, I would have tried to ignore the uproar from media over the case and would have tried to come to a conclusion to the case swiftly rather than dragging the matter out and allowing such a criminal to go so long without being punished. Were I able to decide a punishment at this moment, life in prison without a chance for parole or even the death sentence would be fitting for his crime. Those who jeopardize the safety of citizens should never be given the chance to roam the streets again; no matter how reformed they may seem there is always the chance that a criminal will commit the same act and harm people in the same way they had