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A society that can afford a space programme and foreign wars can afford to lock the dangerously insane away.
I personally feel that if it's wrong for a person to kill a person, it should be considered MORE wrong for the state (acting in dispassionate timely ways) to kill a person.
The problem with saying that we should execute the dangerously insane is that there will always be borderline cases. This case seems clear-cut, but how far do you take it? If we start by killing this man, how long is it before people are being killed because a little girl went missing, and they were the local "oddball". It happened in the past, after all.
Also, if we decide to kill the criminally insane, some prosecutors will be trying to argue that defendants are insane and incurable in order to get the death penalty for crimes that might not otherwise "deserve" it.
Tough call.
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