This means that no one is afraid of it. If we would start punishing criminals, with punishments other than death or a life sentence or two, and stop hosting a criminal open house, we would stop spending so much money on rehabilitation. This classic argument in favor of the death penalty has usually been interpreted as a proper and moral reason for putting a murderer to death. Let the punishment fit the crime is its secondary counterpart. This is a huge amount of taxpayers money, but the public looks at it as an investment in safety since these murderers will never kill again.
Most violent offenders are in fact, repeat offenders.
Repeat offenders should not be released until there is a guarantee that they will not commit a crime again. Hopefully, by your reading this you have begun to think about why harsher penalties should be imposed on violent criminals. Hopefully, it has also answered any questions you might have had about repeat offenders, the ineffectiveness of our punishments on them, and the money tax-payers pay into our nations criminal offenders.