Automatically, such people themselves must be destroyed.
He was only vaguely aware of the flash-bulbs popping as he walked to the chair behind Chief Scott's desk.
That could be an answer, a new addition to the Decalogue, a new Commandment specific to the judge giving sentence to a man like Clarens, an injunction not to jail but to destroy. Simply phrased for the judge, thou shalt not commit!
He seated himself and blinked a couple of times, adjusting to the glare.
But, beginning with Thornberry, there would be many people who wouldn't agree, who would never accept such an amendment to the Sacred Ten, people who never seemed to see that phrase in their newspapers every time a child was assaulted, "Police are questioning all known sex offenders."
Bennington looked thoughtfully around at the men ready to question him.
He, too, was ready, ready to tell them....
... Some people are a damn sight better off dead.