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Death penalty, Correction centers and society

It is quite easy to jump to judgement of someone who killed, raped another human being. Lock them up and throw away the key right? Who’s with me? Well it is my hope that as a society, we can say wait lets hold on for a second. Doesn’t that make us animals, being ruled by emotion rather than rationale. 

Sometime ago I watched one of the Netflix series on criminals on death row. One specific trend that can easily been seen is that they all had specific circumstances in their early childhood, whether sexually abused or radically traumatized in one way or another. In other words, we could posit that it is society who made these humans into criminals. Our societies failures create these criminals. Shouldn’t it be societies responsibility then to ‘fix’ them? After all the prisons are so called correctional facilities. 

I am in no way saying that guilty parties should be allowed to walk, but shouldn’t we as a society rethink our system? Neurological research shows that dysfunction in the brain can lead to such acts of violence in individuals, some scientists go as far as saying that these individuals cannot control themselves in the moment. The fact is that these people can be fixed with treatment, and thus should be allowed to come back into society to provide some sort of benefit. After all it is a human life. 

May 1st 2011, Obama came on the television screen in the hospital to announce that Osama Bin Laden was killed, quickly thereafter the news organization turned to showing people cheering, embracing and celebrating this achievement. At the same moment the doctor of a close friend of mine walked into the waiting room to announce that he has passed. In this moment, no form of celebration from my side was possible, rather it was fairly enraging that someone can celebrate the death of another person after all it is a human life, enemy or not. 

The death penalty shouldn't ever be used, unless even after incarceration they continue to be a danger both to staff and others. The irony of capital punishment is that it is a legal form of murder, murder by jury (society). But, murder it is nonetheless. 

I would like to hear your thought, opinions, rationale? Am I completely wrong on this, is there some truth to my opinion?
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You may find Pereboom's "Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life" and *Living Without Free Will* chapter 6, and Smilansky's "Pereboom on Punishment - Funishment, Innocence, Motivation, and Other Difficulties" and "Hard Determinism and Punishment: A Practical Reductio" helpful.