Sadly he won't get a chance to "interact" with the real prisoners.

Because there is always such a high amount of anger amongst the regular prison community, towards sick fucks who do things to children , they have to be housed in seperate wings and/or they get put in seperate specialised facilities such as Ralston in ChCh, so as much as the perpertrator of such a heinous crime deserves to be given some rough love, the chances are very high in his favour that he'll never have to face it.

They need to kill that fucker!!! NZ should harden up it's pussy laws!!!

only a few times I agree with you kittenthlyer,
all murders should sent to death!! & not by a injection, let them feel the pain the people they killed feel!!

depends on how he gets treated in prison

Hopefully a large angry bull will fuck the lining out of whoever did this.

//They need to kill that fucker!!! NZ should harden up it's pussy laws!!!

i wholeheartedly agree - that scrot rot kiddie fiddling MoFo deserves lucifer_sam style justice.

You're right, everybody deserves a fair trial, innocent until proven guilty etc and he hasn't officially been convicted yet. I think most people are jumping the gun because he led the police to where the body was.

It's only natural that it's easier for people to cope when there's someone to blame, someone who can be the target of their grief and anger. In the end there's no making sense of it, there's no explaining why it happened. This won't just go away once he's in prison or whatever- Coral will still be gone. People do need to find other ways to process the way the feel than focus on the act, the suspect and the punishment, but it's hard.

like i say - BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY.

and to back it up - in 1961 only 3 people where murdered in that entire year alone, in 2002 58 people where murdered. The lenient we get on murder the more there is. New Zealands "justice" system is the sickest in the world.

exactly my point!!! All of u pussies who are soft to kill need to leave to the professionals!!! Life for a life i say!

New Zealand's justice system if anything is the most practical and if you ask me bringing back the death penalty isn't any better than the murderer itself. There are other ways for people to be punished just not the old eye for an eye deal. Would the death penalty stop terrorists on kamikaze missions?

It's not supposed to be, it's a punishment for the crime. Some say it's fair, some say it isn't .
Is any punishmwnt a deterent?

//Is any punishment a deterent?

Yes. Punishments work as an effective deterent where a person considers the possible negative outcome (ie, punishment) before committing the act. Hence, premeditated crimes are most likely to deterred by punishment. Crimes committed spontaneously, by the insane, or by the angry are not likely to be deterred by punishment.

And, yes, there is an argument that the death penalty should deter murder. However, analysis of crime statistics suggests that this is not the case (rather like cardboard cut-out cops appear to increase the quantity of lingerie stolen in department stores (in Dunedin at least)).

It is already ok to kill in cerain situtions - armed defenders, police in certain situations, they all have the ability to kill, not to mention the armed forces during war. I don't know if your a die hard pacifist - this may sound stupid but we could all be speaking japanese now if it wasn't for 'state sactionsed killing'.

Believing that everyone is basicaly the same and that killers must have been mistreated as kids as an explanation of their actions is also pretty cowardly.

I didn't feel like much of a 'pacifist' when I first heard they'd caught the guy, that's for sure. There's a distinct difference between the feeling of revenge, and the act of revenge. One's OK, the other- well you might say the other might be 'understandable,' but I still call it cowardice. I mean, that's really the disturbing error of a murderer- not wanting to seperate their feelings from their actions, regardless of the consequences... and yes, everyone has a choice over how they deal with their anger. Choice=freedom=responsibility for your actions.

I agree. However, my understanding is that revenge tends not to reduce suffering (as a general rule). Also, spare a thought for the poor bastard who has to do it. NZ's last executioner was apparently driven to drink. Not a fun past-time. He also screwed up on the last one, and apparently had to grab the guy and hang off him so he would strangle faster (he miscalculated the drop so his neck didn't break)....

Well, I would almost agree with the death penalty on the grounds that at least if they're dead, the government can't let them out again. Apparently the man had about 90 other previous criminal convictions; you just have to ask "why was this man allowed the freedom he had with this track record?" It just doesn't seem right to me that a man who is so at risk should be let back into the community.