Sorry, not interested. Quite frankly, I would be more interested in ways of implementing the death penatly while avoiding miscarriages of justice.
I think one part of the both the criminal justice system should be a punitive aspect, AKA one of revenge/retribution. IMHO, if someone commits murder with aforethought and there are no extenuating/mitigating circumstances (e.g. you murdered an abuser), the absolute minimum possible punishment should be life imprisonment with no chance for parole for 20 years (IIRC that’s the penalty for first degree murder in Wisconsin). On a moral level, I agree with the death penalty for very serious crimes (I don’t actively lobby for it due to the consideration of miscarriage of justice, but neither do I lobby for its abolition where it still exists). As for complete human monsters such as Anders Brevik, who killed 77 innocent people and wounded others, I find the notion of subjecting him to a humane incarceration where he can even get out of jail after 20-odd years obscene. I don’t care how well he might one day be rehabilitated. He should be made to pay for his crime. If I could, I would subject him to a punishment that would be exponentially more hellish that the absolute worst thing that happened in Auschwitz.
I don’t consider myself a humanist; on the contrary, I pride myself on considering myself divorced from humanism. I am fully capable of hating my neighbor and I am proud of the fact that I haven’t fetishized human life to the point where I would believe it wrong to hate even the most evil monsters in society. I don’t consider that all human life has intrinsic value. IMHO your human value partly depends on whether by your willful actions you contribute happiness or misery to others. Now, I’m not someone who believes in draconian punishments for petty crimes, or even for relatively serious ones. However, I do believe that the punishment should fit the crime, and that if you infringe on others’ rights, you forefit the right to have your own respected. I want a criminal justice system which values making the victim feel better (within reason, of course) over any considerations for the perpetrator’s rights and interests.