“If we could be sure he will be. It works rather well in Germany, which has no death penalty , but keeps murderers locked up. Here our rights-based legal system constantly works to get them out, and we have so many prisoners that the state less careful about letting them loose.”
I’d much prefer that tradeoff - no death penalty - no release. Life should mean life.
It works in Germany because the Germans are not sentimental about criminals. People are sent to prison to punish them. They are at once treated better and not coddled. Our prisons are full of petty criminals because of the war on drugs, and somehow government officials don’t discriminate between the ax= murderer and the drug pusher.