The death penalty makes no sense.

[The Valkyrie]

There are certain crimes, as far as I'm concerned, that are worthy of removal from the planet.

Serial killers.
Terrorists who commit a terrorist act.
Serial rapists.
Serial kiddie fiddlers.
Anyone who commits a murder that results in the prolonged suffering of the victim.
And others...

BUT...

...ther must be absolutely no doubt (and such cases do exist).

Why these crimes and not others ?

If you're not going to have the death penalty then the other penalties need to reflect the severity of the crime. Life should mean life, not out in ten or twenty years.

If you deliberately murder someone then your prison sentence should result in you leaving in a box.

So you would replace state sanctioned murder with state sanctioned torture?

It seems often that laws are all about the rights of the criminal and not the rights of the victims or their families.

Society is judged by how we treat the worst .Brutality towards them is easy . What right do victims have to some else life ?

Where to start...

Because those crimes, as far as I am concerned, are serious enough to warrant permanent removal from the planet. Stealing a loaf of bread, isn't. Even though people were hanged in the past for it.

Locking a murderer up for the rest of his life is torture?

What would you want, smack him on the butt and tell him not to do it again?

Actually, a society is generally judged on how it treats its most vulnerable. Murderers, rapists, and terrorists are generally not the most vulnerable.

I keep hearing about this or that serial offender coming from a broken home or having a rough childhood. There are millions who gave suffered the same or worse but don't become serial offenders.

Who says the victims or their families will be raking a life? I don't even allude to that anywhere. What I said is that laws are too often about the rights of the criminal, not tge family or the victim.

I KNOW this is a sensitive subject, but please try to refrain from putting words in my mouth.