Actually, Smith already has been staying full-time at a community facility with around-the-clock supervision for the past nine months,
He should have been executed. I cannot fathom such a person being ‘rehabilitated’. A dark, disturbing aspect of maintaining civilized society (capital punishment), but at times necessary. This was one of those times.
At the Forensic Hospital I worked at in TX, a man from Houston who had eaten both of his girlfriend’s eyeballs was released. Of course, she was terrified at this decision.
Another patient who had been working on the yard crew there borrowed a chain saw to take home on a weekend pass. He used it to chop up his wife and eat her. IIRÇ, he microwaved part of her dismembered body, and barbecued part of her body.
He is now in a facility in San Antonio, but walked out awhile back and was running around San Antonio.
Unless he is supervissed around the clock until he dies, no one can assure he takes his meds.
And without needing to read anything, I am sure he is on psych meds that MIGHT stop him from eating another person...but who can guarantee he will take them regularly the rest of his life?
I don’t believe he should be terribly mistreated while locked away but he should be locked away for life.