The Human Rights of Child Killers.

[IAN 2411]

I must admit I have trouble with the whole 'make them suffer - revenge' idea. It's - just not important.

Where o where have I mentioned “revenge,” let’s get things put in the right context. Harsh punishment is not revenge, it is justice.

One is that they cannot escape. But another is that most sentences are not for life. So, as I see it, society is best protected by trying hard to rehabilitate the prisoners.
It is proven over and over again that harsh punishment (including death the sentence) does not scare people from committing crimes. But rehabilitation might stop them from doing it again, and that is what is important.

If a man at 25 imprisons, rapes and then selfishly kills a child, or for that matter anyone, with the only reason that killing is to escape justice and incarceration? Then the fact is that he has not picked up in that 25 years the basic principle that all mortals have the human right to live. I would very much doubt that after another 25 years in prison he is going to be installed with, thou shall not rape and kill in his/her warped and twisted brain.

Be Well IAN 2411