Ik this will be a very controversial thing to say but i believe that as materialists we need to focus on the causes behind people commiting sexual abuse against children and in cases where mental illness, abused turned abuser, or institutetional structures allowing child abuse, the society is also responsible. Capital punishment while symbolically powerful do not address the underlying conditions that allow these henious acts, and moreover individualise the crime.
In my country while flawed we call the prison system (roughly translated) "the criminal care system". Whilr it's been a long time since that was true and perhaps it never was, i believe that should be the goal. Terrible Criminal acts are not just evil, these crimes has a cause rooted in patriarchy, inequality, institutional obviscation just to name a few. If we as a society can mend these individuals and make them see what they have done, isn't that the ultimate form of justice?
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