The problem for the author is that he thinks that it's a real social issue. Like the "ticking time bomb" and the trolley problem, such simple problems do not exist in real life. There are no serially-escaping supervillains or uncorruptible invincible heroes out there - and life in prison is a way to guarantee that a garden variety villain can do no more harm.
Why Batman Should Kill The Joker
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The problem for the author is that he thinks that it's a real social issue. Like the "ticking time bomb" and the trolley problem, such simple problems do not exist in real life. There are no serially-escaping supervillains or uncorruptible invincible heroes out there - and life in prison is a way to guarantee that a garden variety villain can do no more harm.
Aside for murdering and raping each other and the guards, they do occasionally escape.
A super science solution would be to plug wires in a convicts brain and cybernetically lobotomize them. That would look good in the comic books and might even work in the real world if not for laws that protect free will and all.
Pandaemoni
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No one has ever escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary's "ADX" level holding. Granted, some say that level of restriction violated the Constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, but my guess is that the courts would redefine "cruel and unusual" in a world with escape prone supervillains. And if a supervillain turns up, we can always amend the Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments to make a "Super Supermax" prison.
Even if the Joker was killed, someone is bound to replace him and in a worst case senario someone even worse could...Once a dictator has fallen..power will always find a place to rest it head.