I get what you said, Steve, but protection of potential victims has to come first - it’s not ‘vengeance and lynch mentality’ to want to protect children from kidnap, rape, torture and murder, surely?

The kind of people who commit that kind of heinous crime seldom do it ‘just the once’, they Often re-offend repeatedly. Unless and until some suitable ‘treatment’ is found - whatever it may consist of - to ensure they don’t return-offend, what other alternative is there to ‘throwing the keys away?