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Originally Posted by dissentowner
The system is broke. This guy should never be free, mentally not guilty be damned. Now that he is mentally sound on meds he should stand trial for murder. I understand about mental health but the bottom line is this guy murdered a young man and his family has to live with the fact there is zero justice for him.
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Going on a lot of assumptions here, but lets say doctors are 100% certain he is mentally ok now and committed to his regimen of medication which will 100% prevent any future decapitation episodes.
What is the benefit of putting him in prison? Will the victims family feel better about their missing family member? Will they sleep easier at night? Luckily I have no first hand experience with this, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think there is any way to have "justice" for the family members. You put Vincent Li to death, you put him in prison for life, it doesn't bring back the victim. There are no pros to imprisoning him.
So if there is certainty he's not going to reoffend we save a bunch of money, we give a human a chance at some form of meaningful life, and maybe even bring a tax payer back into the system.
I just don't see, given my possibly wild assumptions, any positives of throwing the guy in jail for the purpose of "justice".