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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (797768)7/28/2014 3:19:05 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578531
 
"Society's justice for the criminal in a capital case is life in prison in most US states and most countries, that's it. "

No it isn't. As a Ted Bundy type heinous criminal who has committed over 50 brutal murders sits in jail, the scales of justice remain out of balance. The scales are balanced when a wrong has been made right and society and its victims are able to reconcile with the perpetrator.

And the Life in Prison penalty is fallible since Heinous Criminals are often released either by mistake, escape, or by bureaucratic screw ups. Like this one and many others:

They quietly let him go.

Nobody warned Wu, or prosecutors, or the public. The petite, 46-year-old woman learned Chen was still here when he stormed into her unlocked apartment one day in January 2010 and announced, “I bet you didn’t expect to see me.” Terrified, she called the police, and he fled. But for two weeks, Chen was free to stalk her and finally, to catch her as she hurried home with milk and bread one afternoon.

Chen then finished what he had started earlier, bashing Wu on the head with a hammer and slashing her with a knife. As she lay crumpled in a grimy stairwell, he ripped out her heart and a lung and fled with his macabre trophies.

“She lived in horror in the last two weeks of her life,” said Yongwei Guo, Wu’s widower, through an interpreter in New York. “She knew there was somebody coming to kill her and we asked the police for protection, and also the government, but they did nothing.”
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/12/09/secret-criminals-quietly-released-criminals-who-were-supposed-deported-with-deadly-consequences/864u1YQbUaVcRiSnz6VaxJ/story.html