Quote Originally Posted by sharrukin
Out of interest.
If justice does not incorporate any elements of vengeance, then what is it to you?

I assume Ted Bundy who killed close to 40 women is not going to get community service or a $500 fine in your system of justice, but why not?

If vengeance isn't at least a part of it and Brazil said they would take him as a talk show host, why not accept exile for him?

I ask because you don't seem to think justice and vengeance are related.
It's pretty simple really- you imprison people to keep them from endangering the general population. Our government shouldn't be in the revenge business. Some criminals, however, commit such heinous crimes that we cannot afford to risk to have them loosed on society again- thus life sentencing. Obviously, the reason for non-life offenders being imprisoned is also a deterrant type of punishment.

Sending Bundy to Brazil would be unconscionable on our part, as we already know him to be a violent, murderous psychopath and all around scumbag.