Paraphrasing heinlien:- Many crimes are so hienous that they can only have been commited whilst crazy.

Either the criminal can later be cured and will have to live with what they have done(doesn't sound like a recipie for continuing sanity) or they won't. In which case they get released back into society with an lesson in being more careful next time but no increase in "conscience".

he was a big believer in Capital punishment. Given the exorbitent costs of maintaining high security prisoner "for-ever" compared with the exorbitant cost of appeals to a "high" court, the descision shouldn't be made on monetary grounds.

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