"Farewell" is an interesting word. The last thing I'd want to do is wish him a pleasant journey! "Bugger off - the human race is better without you" would be more accurate - mind you, that wouldn't all fit in a Mudcat thread title. ;-)

I'm generally against capital punishment, so a better use of his time would be a life sentence. However, I'm also on the side of kat in that prisons should be self-sufficient (at least in terms of food). Prisoners decide they don't want to work in the fields, the whole prison gets less food. Harvest etc would be done using manual labour rather than mechanical. This would have the additional benefit of helping wildlife by returning to the "traditional" methods of farming.

Of course, there is the problem of how to control prisoners armed with scythes and pitchforks... :-)

Graham.