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Originally Posted by Latex Glove
By placing someone with the jail cell, however, it is possible to retain their life and also keep them away from others.
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But if he's such a monster for imprisoning someone, then we're doing the same to him. Just because we're justified to imprison doesn't mean it's any less wrong than what he did.
Also many countries insist that the people within prison have rights, and so he'd have to have a certain amount of time spent in the company of other people. And there's nothing to say that a total psycho would kill those people as well. As I pointed out, it's also a waste of money, and gives them a sense of worth that they are undeserving of.
As The Great Panda quite rightly put it (awesome name by the way), many of the people I'm referring to would be vermin. We don't catch rats and imprison them for being generally disgusting and persistent threats to our household or our health. We exterminate them.
Lord-of-Shadow, I disagree with killing anyone who's just getting a single life sentence, because for one thing life isn't necessarily life, it could be 15 or 25 years and they may eventually get out on parole. If you're referring to the kind of person who will never leave jail and will never get parole, they may sometimes feel remorse if it was just for a single murder, and so it may be worth keeping them alive for the punishment value. I agree that they may become a waste of money however, and so probably shouldn't be kept alive if they're NEVER coming out.
Also justice is giving each their due, and giving somebody what they deserve. A crime deserves punishment, but of equal value to the crime committed. Not necessarily have the crime done to them. Using the death penalty on a murderer is not a case of "a life for a life", it's a case of simple punishment, eliminating the costs of keeping someone who won't ever be leaving prison alive, and eliminating a threat to public safety.