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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Whatever is in accordance with the laws of that jurisdiction; assuming they are considered reasonable within certain degree by, say, standards outlined by the United Nations.
I would say that, with the particular heinousness of these crimes, that sentencing should include many years of incarceration, but I imagine the rules are different if the accused will be tried in a juvenile court. (This is altogether another issue up for debate.)
Whether the guilty decide to spend their sentences brooding in anger or passing the time with remorse is entirely up to them. I know the victims didn't choose to be victims... but the assailants won't be able to choose the consequences--the outcome of their actions will be handed to them.
Your opinion is worrisome to me. How low should the death penalty go? ...and would the victims be able to skin the victims alive? Gouge out their eyes? Would this be televised? Would that restore harmony to society?
Your idea of justice isn't only sad, it is illogical. You condone wanton violence as a response to violence. This isn't justice, this is madness.
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Madness? This. Is. SPARTA!
But seriously, you think that human beings have come far from the middle ages where public executions were common place and even a form of entertainment. I don't necessarily want to say that you're wrong, because there is certainly a level of advancement, but people will always be people. That means that we, as humankind, will always want bloodshed in some type shape or form. While I do recognize a higher level of civilization, the primal instincts of brutal retaliation are still within us. This is why I am not surprised in the least by the responses here that propose torture or some form of killing.