Even though NZ wasn't a penal colony there are claims that some of the deportees ended up here.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/78...s-are-descendants-of-australian-convicts

Stealing a loaf of bread because your family is starving and getting sent to a penal colony in Tasmania was deplorable. Most victims of that dark episode in history would probably be considered good civic minded citizens these days.

The death penalty has it's pros and cons.

"The 257 Roberts, some people like to call it the “.257 Bob.” I think these people should be hung in trees where crows can peck at them." - David Petzal