I agree with Slow. Let us for argument sake assume 60 years in prison is reasonable for sending SPAM the way they did. In my book that would give rape, physical assault and murder at least 600 years. I can not understand how sending SPAM could be worse than beating someone severely with a baseball bat.
This is however not only in America. In Sweden we often see a higher sentence for economic crimes than for physical crimes. Personally I think it is absurd. If someone beat my 11 year old daughter up badly they should not have a shorter sentence than a guy robbing a bank without physically hurting anyone (or sending SPAM for that matter). The perp of my daughter should be hacked to pieces with a small pen knife. Slowly bleeding to death while suffering terrible pain. I am ordinarily against death penalty but this got me going.
