1.   But this is a case where long imprisonment is needed not just as a punishment, but to protect society.

2.   Prisons are meant to protect society from criminals.

3.   The Bill is the latest in a long line of measures to protect society from criminals and to improve the penal system.

4.   Capital punishment is itself barbaric, a penalty that is vengeful without protecting society.

5.   Death penalty supporters argue that executions protect society.

6.   Government, Skillen said, has been ordained by God to carry out certain tasks of protecting the society and assuring justice.

7.   He responded with a pat answer about protecting society from criminals instead.

8.   If those charged with protecting society from violence become targets themselves, where does that leave us?

9.   In that statement, the pope said that modern penal systems made it unnecessary to protect society by executing dangerous criminals, Misleh said.

10.   It is of course hard if not impossible to protect society from a determined killer camouflaged, as this one was, by his own ordinariness.