American law, as well as Zimbabwean law, has roots in a variety of sources including but not limited to English Common Law and the Code of Hammurabi. Whereas poaching was considered a grave offense, as theft from the king, in medieval England; the standard penalty had been execution. The Code of Hammurabi mandated that the wronging party shall suffer the same fate as the wronged. Therefore, the most fitting consequence for Walter James Palmer, in response to his brutal murder of a beloved creature under the care and protection of a national government, would be to be wounded by a bow and arrow and left for 40 hours without medical care, to be followed by execution by decapitation. The head should then be stuffed and mounted; put on public display in a Zimbabwean government office.
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