The death sentence

Today we talked about Socrates and him drinking poison after breaking the law. This is called the death penalty. It is the punishment for seriously breaking the law today, but was used all the time back then. It was used for almost anything. For example, if you stole something,  killed someone, or anything that was against the rules, you had a chance to be killed for your crimes. In this situation a man that was a legend in Athens, and all of Greece was telling people to think on their own, and the government didn't like it. This ended in people calling for him to die. So they voted like civil people, and it ended up that he would be killed by poison. I disagree on what he was sentenced with but I do agree with the death penalty for certain crimes. In the end back then it was a high risk for high reward and today it is very high risk for little reward. So just don't commit crimes.