Essa cena é do de Heinlein O Número da Besta .
(E não, como afirmei originalmente, Trabalho: Uma Comédia de Justiça .)
The Bible affects their penal system, again by selective quotation: 'Eye for eye, tooth for tooth...'
This results in a fluid code, with no intent to rehabilitate but to make the punishment fit the crime. I saw an example four days after we settled here. I was driving our steam wagon south on the highway out of town and encountered a road block. A policeman told me that I could take a detour or wait twenty minutes; the highway was being used to balance a reckless driver.
I elected to pull over and wait, then joined some spectators. A man was staked with one leg stretched out at a right angle. A police wagon drove down that cleared highway and ran over his leg, turned and drove back over it a second time.
There was an ambulance waiting - but nothing was done for a timed seventeen minutes. Then surgeons performed amputation on the spot; the ambulance took him away and the block was removed.
( O Número da Besta , capítulo XXXVIII.)