I'm curious as to what sort of financial compensation though? As in why does his death entitle them to a penny? Seems a little bizarre, considering they get nothing for him being alive, and the victims certainly don't either way.p
Sure there should be a full investigation and if there's any blame, people should be held to account. But I really don't see how money comes into it here.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, I'm just struggling to see how payment to the family of a convicted criminal upon his death would be justifiable and how you would even put a price on that.
Because as far as I am aware, when the state confines you, it does not throw in the added probability of unnatural death at the hands of other inmates. Not officially at least.
There is already a mechanism by which victims of a crime can sue liable parties for financial damages. Because they were wronged. The perpetrator may be penniless, but that does not negate the fact that some sort of liability exists from perpetrator to victim. And if they are not penniless, no one has an issue with them being made bankrupt in an attempt to make the victim(s) whole.
The state on the other hand, has the right to deprive convicts of their liberty. Not of their sanity, welfare, or life. If the state does that, then they have erred, and there should be a penalty. I think where you are getting caught up is the idea that a convicted pedo's family/estate would receive cash i.e. benefiting from the pedo's death. I see it more as a citizen being failed by the state, which subsequently has to make restitution for that failure.
As for price? That's a minor detail. Legal courts come up with punitive penalties all the time.
Fallout reference.
