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“If they were to kill her, they would be no better than her.”
I don’t see this as true. Dispassionately eliminating a stranger proven to be a dangerous psychopath capable of slowly murdering her mother for the fun of it, does not make one as bad as the psychopath.
The psycho is obviously intelligent, and capable of fooling people into thinking she is sane and blameless. If she were confined with the goal of rehabilitation and eventual release it is not beyond imagination that she could one day fool a psychiatrist into releasing her - to kill again. From what little I read of her writing, it is likely she would find this an amusing challenge.
So I don’t think that it would be prudent to EVER consider releasing her. Neither could you permit unsupervised contact with others people for psychiatric reasons… they might look too much like toys to her. She would have a lot of time to plan harm, and have nothing whatever to loose.
With this reasoning, I can see the trade off of “Do we kill her painlessly, with no malice? Or do we lock her up for a lifetime, with never a moment of unsupervised contact with another human being? Which is the best use of resources? For that matter, which is the most merciful?”
I suspect the choice will be a lifetime of confinement, and I personally agree. But, I can also see a reasonable person choosing the alternative.
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