Jeffrey Dahmer Was Flawed Essay

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Flawed It has been posited for many years that people can be born evil and some criminals especially have further proven this idea. But while some may be born evil, justice should always come when due to those who do horrible things. My ideal form of justice is that in which the crimes one commits are faced with equal retribution, but that is not always possible. For many, justice is when the bad guy goes to prison to rot, but it is hard not to wonder whether or not this is really a suitable punishment. Is it really enough to let a heinous criminal sit pretty with free food, healthcare, and protection in prison for 40 years? When Dante wrote Inferno, he certainly did not seem to think that earthly punishments were enough. There are simply people who commit acts so foul that the human ideal of justice can not churn out a punishment severe enough. One such person was Jeffrey Dahmer. …show more content…

Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer kidnapped, raped, murdered, cannibalized, and desecrated the bodies of 17 men and boys in Wisconsin. His trial was highly publicized because of the brutality of his crimes, the high death count, and the calm sociopathic tendencies he displayed while under arrest and on trial. "He knew [what he did] was evil." This was what prosecutor Michael McCann had to say against Dahmer’s claim to insanity during his trial. The jury also agreed as Dahmer was given 15 terms of life imprisonment without chance of parole when the jury deemed him legally sane. “The euphemistic-sounding words reflected everyone's overwhelming need to deny their revulsion at Dahmer's atrocities and the issues arising from them.” This is a quote from one of the jurors after hearing Dahmer’s defense of

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