What a tired response!
What does the US justice system have to do with this? If my name was MossleyBlue, would it have made it easier to stay on topic?
We are discussing whether someone who committed horrendous acts with and against minors is able to be rehabilitated by being put in a secure facility where he is not going to get stabbed, beaten or anally raped to death? I think the answer is “No.” and he has self-selected himself OUT of our so-called civilized society.
As such, I see no redeeming value in locking him away in a concrete box waiting for the inevitable. He made his choice and I’ve made mine.
Death. Goodbye and good riddance.
No it isn't irrelevant. The USA is the Western model of capital punishment.
Capital punishment has been repeatedly ruled unconstitutional for all non-homocide offences.
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Your stance is understandable, in fact on a singular personal level I actually agree with you. Ian Watkins is a waste of oxygen, a vile and cruel man but one that had plenty of opportunity and had women throwing themselves at him but rather than just have a normal sex life, had to abuse, degrade and traumatise women, girls and babies for his own evil means.
He doesn't offer anything good to anyone. He proves that by the fact he was still grooming women from inside.
He also deserves death, even torture. There aren't any arguments against that point, he destroyed families and changed the whole path of young babies' lives.
However, those facts and arguments do not override the fact we don't have capital punishment for sound reasons.
One reason would be that killing rapists and paedophiles would actually incentivise them to murder their victims to conceal evidence.
That's just one obvious reason not to do it, there are many others, but discussion of them is better placed for another thread.