I agree, bioemerl and havires. I found a lot of things horrifying in the story -- the greatest horror being that a man would have to dedicate his life to getting justice for his daughter. He used his one and only life to pursue this, to think about it every day for decades, to have this be his purpose in life. Yes, there's the feel-good moment of going outside of the system to get justice, then putting delivery of justice in the hands of the courts, and then getting proper justice, and the clincher of getting forgiveness for kidnapping someone. It's a helluva story. But even with the "happy ending", he still lost his daughter. Lots of mixed emotions in this story, it's been haunting me.
Fuck it. I think if I knew the person who raped and killed my daughter was free and raping and endangering other girls I would become like a samurai, I'd accept that I was dead already and dedicate my life to ending that man. What would life be worth to know that a person who did that to my family was still doing the same thing to other peoples? It seems obvious that it would be worth more to spare some other soul the desolation and pain that I lived in than to worry about finding away to whittle away the hours in torment until I died. What consequences could be worse than the pain of loosing your daughter to such a foul being?
It wouldn't surprise me if he will assault someone else 15+ years from now. Judicial systems are often focused on punishment, not rehabilitation. It's a flaw that sometimes turns out to be fatal. I don't know what this man has been doing for the past few decades, but it would surprise me if he's been a model citizen. Does anyone have a source on the murderer's life in-between the killing and when justice was brought upon him?
In Norway the maximum you can be jailed for is 21 years. The idea is that you're not the same person you were 21 years ago, and prison should focus on reform not punishment. Norway's first terrorist who killed 93 teenagers is serving his 21 year sentence now, and that is challenging the Norwegian view of justice. However, if a prisoner is deemed to still be a hazard after that time the sentence can be extended, and that is what will certainly happen in the case of the Norwegian killer. I don't know if France has something similar. Given that the man in this story is 75, we could hope he will finish his days behind bars. The article says in-between his killing and justice he was accused of several other rapes by the same method, injection, so he certainly hadn't changed his ways over the decades and there seems to be no good reason to think he will.
What's everyone's opinion on those who believe they should stay in prison? Who believe that society is safer with them on the inside? I know there are several pedophiles (Who I distinguish from pederasts) who have expressed this sort of sentiment, and were allowed to remain incarcerated.
If a consul agrees with the inmate that they would be better off inside a prison, then I'm all for it. I'm sure there are those who would be alright in society, but can't wrap their heads around it while in prison. I would definitely let the inmates' opinions weigh more heavily than the consuls', though. I don't think many people would want to leave prison if you gave them that option. There's a lot of anxiety for the inmate when leaving their oh-so familiar environment. Here's where I've derived parts of my opinions.