Surgically removing offending organs is much more civilized than locking a man in a cage for 50 years. Also, we will have to disagree on the effect of long sentences. When the perp benefits from preserving life, I believe they will often do so. Perps may not behave the way we want them to, but that does not mean that they are stupid. If a perp commits a sexual transgression with a 5 year sentence, they still pay a major price if they kill and knock the sentence up to life (or 50 years). Sentences should always be set so as to leave benefit to the perp for not committing further and more serious crime. Killing is the worst crime and its sentence should always be significantly above any other. Some might say killing is not the worst and maybe a sex crime is, but that is just talk. Take a person and give them the choice to be shot in the head or endure an hour of sexual transgression, what do you think they would chose. Death is forever. All else can be endured.