Plenty.
But doesn't this fly in the face of having the family enjoy the killer's suffering?
Death's a relief to plenty of these folks. Why not twist the knife with a life sentence of labor and no TV?
Family enjoyment is not the purpose of punishment. I would think that families of murder victims probably do not view the incarceration of the murderers as adding to the families' enjoyment. Death's a relief to plenty of these folks. Why not twist the knife with a life sentence of labor and no TV?
I would say rather that the execution of the murderer is probably a relief to the murder victims' families. After all, why should the murdere be allowed to take another breath, to look at the night sky, or for that matter, to experience anything whatever on this earth when the victim has been robbed of all those things.
And I add that if the murderer dies in his sins, unjustified and unforgiven, death and Hell will be no relief to him.
I don't believe in prisons anymore. If a crime worthy of death is committed then execute the perpetrator. If it's a crime not worthy of death, make the criminal pay restitution several times over. If they don't have enough take whatever they have and exile them. If it's none of the above, then it probably isn't a crime in the first place. There is no reason to warehouse all these criminals, except pretrial in jails like the brand spanking new one in St. Louis County.
Cordially,