As a human, as a thinking human, as a humane human, I'm against it.

As a human who sees the ugly things that are done, things by folks with names like John Wayne Gazcy and Jeffrey Dahmer and Albert Fish and Heinrich Himmler and H. H. Mudge and Ian Brady and John Haigh and Elizabeth Bathory and Giles de Rais and so very many others, I can only say that it certainly does have a low recidivism rate.

The question in my mind is whether or not the person could be returned to society after rehabilitation or whether they are so far gone, what they have done is so despicable, that society uses the ultimate "casting out".

Could Sawney Bean and his family have been rehabbed? Peter Kurtin? Henri Landrau? Belle Guinness?

I don't know. I can say that I that the world as a whole is better off without some of these folks, however.