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Originally Posted by Teak
None of which justifies a low life scum sucking murderer being turned lose, to kill again. If YOU want to support them for life, thats up to you. But it's a total waste of money. Apply the death penalty, swiftly, and often. Crime rates WILL drop, if for no other reason than removing the perpetrators from this earth.
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"Teak", my post said nothing about "turning lose" or "releasing" these violent offenders. If you read my post, you would see that I suggest that we "study & learn" more about what makes these terrible people so different from the rest of us, and so violent & ruthless toward society. If we don't intensively study and learn from these "subjects" we will never come to understand how they seem to "spontaneously" pop up in our society: and understanding what makes them tick is the first step toward prevention.
Keeping these people alive would also have the added advantage of keeping them available for increased interrogation as more sophisticated methods of brain-mind study develop. Such a prospect would also pose a much greater threat & deterent for prospective offenders & conspirators then oblivion by execution.
As for cost, we are already spending vast amounts on prisons which have become " institutions of higher learning" for criminals; we might re-think some of our sentence priorities and the cost benefit ratio to society of an increased understanding of violent criminal behavior. There are now over 300 million of us, and as that number increases it would be wise for us to better understand (with a view to prevention) this demented behavior.
I do not suggest turning any of these offenders loose again to threaten society: I do propose that we use them as study subjects to learn more about thus have a better chance of preventing some of this in the future...pjwky