The various proposals here, in which people ask for the mutilation and torture of the offender, I find can only be rejected and to me shows why death penalty has to be rejected.
The laws and punishment of a nation justice system should not be decided in the name of the emotional reactions of the individual to serve that individuals needs for revenge.
The laws and punishment of a nations justice system should be desined to represent the comunity and to treat each member of the comunity equaly.
We have "Sicherheitsverwahrung" in Germany. If a offender is found to dangerous to be released into the public then a judge can order him to be detained for a unlimited period of time.
Sexoffenders who are released here spend the rest of their life under police surveilance.
To argue that this is a waste of taxmoney is repulsive, since it implies that one can set a financial value on a human life.
No matter how repulsive a offenders crime might have been, one shouldn`t set a value on that offenders life.
Primeraly, I believe and am a advocate for crime prevention.
I do believe that when one talks about the punishment for an offender who has commited a crime, that it is already to late to prohibit that crime and that by simply only punishing that offender and not giving any attention to the circumstances which lead to the crime being commited - one doesn`t do anything to prevent further such crimes to be commited.
The reasons why crimes are commited are to be found out and methods to prevent the crimes from happening are to be researched and put in place - which is, in my opinion, where the states main attention on the subject of crime fighting should be put.
The laws and punishment of a nation justice system should not be decided in the name of the emotional reactions of the individual to serve that individuals needs for revenge.
The laws and punishment of a nations justice system should be desined to represent the comunity and to treat each member of the comunity equaly.
We have "Sicherheitsverwahrung" in Germany. If a offender is found to dangerous to be released into the public then a judge can order him to be detained for a unlimited period of time.
Sexoffenders who are released here spend the rest of their life under police surveilance.
To argue that this is a waste of taxmoney is repulsive, since it implies that one can set a financial value on a human life.
No matter how repulsive a offenders crime might have been, one shouldn`t set a value on that offenders life.
Primeraly, I believe and am a advocate for crime prevention.
I do believe that when one talks about the punishment for an offender who has commited a crime, that it is already to late to prohibit that crime and that by simply only punishing that offender and not giving any attention to the circumstances which lead to the crime being commited - one doesn`t do anything to prevent further such crimes to be commited.
The reasons why crimes are commited are to be found out and methods to prevent the crimes from happening are to be researched and put in place - which is, in my opinion, where the states main attention on the subject of crime fighting should be put.
