people that comit these horendour crimes are sick. do you think a fully competent person could really throw children off a bridge because they were mad? while i agree they should be punished, i think "drawing and quartering" or "shooting to maim before killing" a mentally deficient individual is as barbaric and unconscionable as the original act.
While i dont have a solution, i think that using the old "eye for an eye" adage is stupid. "you killed someone, it was wrong... what we are going to do to you is exactly what we are telling you was wrong." also it has been proven that death penalty is not a deterrant of any kind (mostly due to the fact that the people that comit these crimes dont have the mental capacity to understand it as a deterrant.)
::edit:: Flame away im bored
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