(September 17, 2013 at 4:33 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Heck, were I part of that girl's family or her boyfriend, I'd probably say something like "kill them... or better... let me kill them in the most painful and slow way imaginable!".
That's where the middle ground, to me, comes in. Give 'em a cold, quick, detached death.
I think my moral reasoning for the death penalty is to essentially remove the idea of the guilty party's existence from the victim and/or their family. Imprisonment still is something where they exist. Worse is when these kinds of guys somehow managed to get "with parole" so they can end up going free at some point, however unlikely that is.
It's a spectre that I, personally, would just want to banish from the minds of those who've been stricken with such a terrible experience.
If we would go with more morally-safe route, and go with life imprisonment, I would say life imprisonment in solitary confinement with no allowance for human contact, and no allowances for parole. Let the rest of their lives just be a bleak empty void.
Either option is fine to me.
