Gee jeffyp, I hope when they let the poor darlings out after 10 or 20 years, they all move onto your street, or better yet, next door to your daughter and her kids.

I don't think The State taking a life is a good idea, but the trouble is that the court system in this country simply will not keep most of the incorrigibles locked up for life. Eventually, no matter what they've done, they're back out, and if you believe you can rehab most of these monsters and then reintroduce them into society without a signifigant chance of negative consequences descending upon additional innocents, then you're either very young, very isolated or very naive.