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Yeah I really don't understand how many Americans are okay with people being murdered in prison.
Their sentence is prison, not death.
I think a lot of people want revenge over justice while at the same time mistrusting their justice system to work correctly...
That's pretty much it, with the caveat that I don't think revenge is so much the goal as it is actual justice. Our 'justice system' is a bad joke, so counting on it to appropriately handle evil people is naive.
We're pretty much guaranteed that he won't take a path of correction, because perfect-world-ideals aside, the corrections system isn't designed to do that.
We're left with the only realistic outcomes all being undesirable, but the least undesirable among them is another inmate just killing him before he's released, hence the folks disappointed that the stabbing wasn't fatal.
It's the same kinda deal as when evil people in power like Mitch McConnell show signs that he might be stroking out, but then lives on to sow more evil: and then comment sections everywhere are full of people disappointed that he didn't die - not because they want him dead, but because they don't want evil people to be in power, but with the current state of our broken system, about the only realistic path for that to actually happen is something like a fatal medical episode or car wreck etc.
There's a prevailing (but diminishing) notion that nobody deserves to die... but preservation of an evil life, especially ones in a position of power/influence, serves only to impair and/or destroy a great deal more lives. So, unconditional preservation of any life may feel like a moral high ground, but that illusion dissolves pretty quick when you start to consider the consequences for doing so.
Ideally that'd all be moot, since we'd have a functional way to remove those people from power and help them to actually become a positive member of society, but our reality is so far from that, that were left with hoping for things like a targeted stabbing in prison, or a stroke on stage, etc.
Nah it's just cuz we have a "sides" mentality in our heads: When bad things happen to bad people, It's good.
They forget or somehow don't care that death would be a relief for prisoners. It would spare them from the endless torment and boredom and terrible food.