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Killing someone for being on the sex offender register is killing someone for what they MAY do in future, based on an offence in the past that they have served their time for.
As to whether the time they served was sufficient is not a question for the creators of the register, it's one for the parole board and the convicting court.
As to whether we should make better efforts to rehabilitate people is a question for the prison service and parole officers.
Overall, if we are going to bray that he got his come-uppence then we should immediately ban for life any driver caught over the legal BAC, or speeding.
The court (as part of the country's democratic system) expresses the will of the people as a whole - not the will of a few angry members of the public.
In this case, a man who committed sexual violence against adult women was killed because a man thought he might commit sexual violence on a young male.
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