As far as I'm concerned anyone who hurts animals or little children forgoes the right to live. We are becoming a cruel, monstrous society because we haven't got in place the necessary methods of retaliation.
Ergo: Thompson and Venebles tortured and murdered the beautiful Jamie Bulger and as 'punishment' for their crimes they got a few years in a secure unit - which I doubt is much worse than boarding school - a full education and qualifications - which they wouldn't have got if they'd stayed in mainstream school, new identities and lots of money with which to begin their nice new lives. Wow, some punishment, eh?
And the do-gooders assure us that this sort of treatment of offenders will ultimately bring about a cessation of bad and cruel behaviour?
'scuse me, is this planet Zog?