People who sit here shizzling on about “deterrence” should realize that psychopaths are not capable of thinking in such terms. Their cunning - a variable quality - serves to meet their sick needs and nothing else. Ted Bundy would have been Ted Bundy no matter what the promised torments.

But by all means, don’t let that stop you from fantasizing about your personal town square and the instruments of torture and humiliation you’d like to see installed there. Just remember: that is the furniture of your mind.

Find it comfy?