I’d like to see them out in 5 years and devote the rest of their lives to speaking out
to help prevent others from making the same damnable mistake.
If they have any conscience at all and their mug shots give an indication they do,
they will be under a living internal prison sentence for the rest of their lives.
If they have one thread of decency, they will live out their years knowing they killed their offspring.
You live in a dream world
There are plenty of clean and sober folks who already do that.
Addicts tend to not care about much other than their next fix
God can make good things happen out of a bad situation. I would tend to agree with your idea.
If they turn their hearts over to Jesus and put God first, they could be powerful testimony to those who would follow what they did.