>>Nah, some are so bad they don't deserve to live and take up tax money and be let out few years later to commit more murder.
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>Ah, but there's the key point. What they deserve isn't necessarily what we should give them. Because what we do to murderers and other criminals is about _us_, not them.

No. Not everything is about "us"... whatever that means....
It's more about justice and making sure he/she doesn't murder again. And there is only one way to make sure....

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>If we want a society where fewer people behave violently, we have to build a society that doesn't act violently.

There's nothing violent about how we execute vicious criminals today.
But then some are killed violently at the hands of their fellow jail mates.

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>Tamar