Originally posted by lasersailor184
What I do care about is that he is in pain for a terrible thing he has done. That way all those who are willing to commit murder would know that we are willing to truly punish them in the future.
Those who commit murder probably think they're going to get away with it, or they don't care about the punishment in any event. Newsflash: people still murdered and raped in abundance back in medieval times when the sorts of draconian measures you espouse enjoyed their heyday. I'm also not clear how making the killing public somehow increases the pain and suffering of the perpetrator. What it does do is satisfy the sort of sick, depraved bloodlust that both the killer
and you seem so happy and willing to fulfill.
Those who commit murder, and in particular those who commit heinous, premeditated homicide have willingly given up their right to remain members of society. They are a cancer that we as a society excise because they pose a risk to the safety of others and because their very existence is anathema to all we consider civilized. If we revel in their pain, and if we see pain as their punishment rather than death itself, then we become little better than the killers.
-- Todd/Leviathn