It was reported that negotiations with him led to her being found. That's enough evidence for a public hanging as far as I'm concerned. Let everyone come watch what will happen to child murderers.
I hope they didn't let him plead out of the death penalty.
The other side of that coin is that in that instance, the criminals have nothing to lose by fighting it out to the bitter end, tasking as many others along with them, or eliminating witnesses if there's the slightest chance they could link them to the punishment you suggest.
We really don't do a particularly effective job at rehabilitating those who really can be rehabilitated, no more than we do an effective job of executing those who we'd really be better off without having populating the world. Since drug or alcohol use is commonplace in the circles of most professional criminals and recidivists, maybe one cheap answer would be to keep them stoned on whatever confiscated narcotics are cheap and easily available. If they want to live behind bars and get their free dope/booze, they'd be much less of a risk to the rest of us.
It was reported that negotiations with him led to her being found. That's enough evidence for a public hanging as far as I'm concerned. Let everyone come watch what will happen to child murderers.
Having worked three child disappearances involving kids about Carlie Brucia's age, I'd be more inclined to offer a noce comfy jail cell as an alternative to the death penalty in exchange for recovering the victim's remains and giving the family that final peace. In that third case in which we never found the missing 12-year-old girl's body, I'd give an awful lot to be able to let her parents know. If still alive, she'd be 33 years old now; instead the best I can offer is the possibility that some extrajudicial justice happened in her case under circumstances worthy of a novel.
I don't think there's any one hard-and-fast rule for dealing with such crimes, or such criminals. The more consistant the system is, the easier it is for the criminal to exploit or *work* it. I prefer to offer confusion to our enemies.
But in any event, I don't favour hanging. Placement in a cement mixer along with a few dozen bowling balls and concrete blocks, while the truck takes a drive of the places the victim used to live and stroll are more in line with what I'd suggest. And if most certainly cruel, such a procedure would not be unusual if used frequently, and the constitutional prohibition is on punishments that are cruel and unusual....
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