Is there something in the theory that we become more conservative as we age?
I was completely against the death penalty for years, then 'people' like this come along and you wonder what possible contribution they could ever make to society beyond costing us more to house and feed.
If his brain has some use to science, then fine take it out and slice it up, otherwise what is the literal point in allowing this kind of danger and cost to play out?
I'm genuinely asking for opinions here, is there a merit to letting him continue to breathe? Can we learn from his mentality over time to identify and prevent future incidents? Is it worth it even?
There are plenty of people ready to psychoanalyse parasites like this and tell us what caused their situation, but unless we can translate that into not having such incidents then is it worthwhile? Even if we do find the cause, do we have the money, time and will to address them? When the alternative is potentially stricter US style security even for our kids in daily life, and just hanging the offenders as a cheaper option?
We cry that it's inhumane to have the death penalty. But is it more inhumane (less severe but spread over many more individuals) to let that threat, that symbol of evil, continue to hang around, cost us all money, just to find that either these kind of things are not totally preventable or to prevent them takes resources that our society just doesn't possess.
Either way, personally I hope he's left unattended briefly and one of the other inmates notices.