why does the government insist that serial killers and child murderers?

Question

be kept in prison don't you think it would be better to bring back hanging for these types of crimes.

Answer 1

I don't mind if they keep them in prison for the rest of their natural lives. It's the price they have to pay. and I am generally against the death penalty. (That serial killer in Russia, who felt "fatherly" towards his victims because he was ushering them into death has stretched my limit!. as do child murderers/rapists/abusers.)
However, I am really angry when they are released back into society, where they can do the same vile deed over and over again. Protect us from the evil-doers. Lock them up and throw away the key.

Answer 2

Not that this sort of argument bears at all on the validity of any religious claim--since even if it could be shown that every historical lunatic was exposed to religion during childhood, this neither affirms nor disqualifies the truth of such claims--but there's something you ought to think about. Joesph Stalin didn't start killing people until AFTER he threw away his religious affections, not before. The same goes for Pol Pot and Mao Zedong. Hitler is difficult to pin down because he often talked from both sides of his mouth when it came to epistemology, and you cannot ascertain that by quote mining anti-theistic websites. But the point is that most of the people you mentioned did not proceed with their homicidal lunacy until they became committed atheists. But as we all know, correlation does not necessarily mean causation. Just because their murders followed their atheism does not mean atheism spear-headed their murders, hence the fallacy of " Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" which the precise fallacy you used here, and which atheists, who are supposed to be the residual priests of higher logic, use over and over and over again. Religious childhoods might have something to do with deleterious behavior in later years in some cases, as might an atheistic childhood, but we need to do a lot more investigation into the totality of their upbringings and the quality of life they enjoyed, as well as the influences in their environment before we draw conclusions. It's not enough to say that because one thing follows another that therefore there is causation involved. This makes for good polemics, but not for good research.

Answer 3

I can never decide whether I agree on Capitol punishment or not. Just look at America and death row, some of those prisoners have been waiting 20 or so years for their lethal injection or equivalent. Would the the sentance of death really stop these awful crimes. My opinion is no it wouldn't.

I do agree that, those who hurt children and serial killers and murderers should serve a sentence that reflects what they have done. If that means never to be released back in to society again, so be it.

Answer 4

Serial killers would definitely not be deterred by the death penalty. I would say the same for child murderers, but in addition there is understandably such revulsion in such cases, that a miscarriage of justice is always possible. As long as they are out of harms way that is good enough for me. If they have a conscience at all they have to live with what they have done.

Answer 5

Sometimes it's disheartening that the criminals don't have to suffer "an eye for an eye." I think our justice system is just too afraid of faulty convictions, if that makes sense. If you kill the guy and then find out 20 years later he didn't do it, well, then what? So they'd prefer to let these guys be fed and housed by the tax payers and then call them redeemed and give them another try.

Maybe I'm just feeling a little cynical today, but that's my gut reaction to your question.

If there's no question that someone did the crime (as in, someone SAW him do it), then he should suffer a similar punishment, IMO.

Answer 6

Because we have signed up to the European convention on human rights. It's the truth don't hang me for saying so (excuse the pun).

Advantage - retribution

Disadvantage - miscarriages of justice

Serial killers are never let out and I am not aware of a child killer repeating the offence, are they released? Nor in all honesty would it deter people capable of carrying out such evil murders.

Answer 7

I would like to see convicted murderers be placed in a room with their victims' families in a completely private, secure room for as long as the families' deem necessary to carry out their vengeance. However, the U.S. government, civil liberties organizations, and the tide of popular trend are giving more support and concern for murderers, pedophiles, and terrorists than hard-working Americans. Gays get special priveleges. Illegal aliens break the law and nothing happens to them. Some are even given college educations!
Civil liberties organizations are more concerned over the welfare of a TERRORIST PRISONER than they are the fate of a laid-off man who is desperate to take care of his family. They watch and wait for some American, trying to help WIN THE WAR WE ARE FIGHTING by gettin information out of a prisoner, then take his picture, put it on every newspaper and tv news show, slander him in out-of-context fashion and crucify him. However, the terrorist, the WOULD-BE MURDERER OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS, gets the assurances that his pride and dignity won't be harmed, gets the right to good meals, education, massages with happy endings and whatever other ludicrous luxuries these killers are being given.

The death sentence is only for countries that care about its citizens and have the balls to set an example. This country lets too many soft, weak, ignorant people get into office and slowly deface our great achievements under a stream of bullshiite.

Answer 8

I always thought the best thing to do would be to hand over the criminal to the family members of the victims and let them do what they want, no questions asked. The only hard thing is that there is always the chance that the wrong person is on trial...but for those murderers who openly admit they did it...let them be tortured they way they tortured their victims.

Answer 9

An eye for an eye! We'd save a **** load of money not feeding these a@sholes every day and educating them so they can defend themselves when they come up for parole. I think money could be better spent than keeping them in prison for 40 years!

Answer 10

You know as much as i hate them and the pain they have inflicted on others i say no..

These people can provide us answers into how we can control their anti social behaviours ...

Many of these people are used in studies /research which can be helpful in tackling the issue in wider society

We also have to consider miscarriages of justice . .they do happen and if there was the death penalty we could not bring the wrongly accused back