It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
There is a time when even justice brings harm.
There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.