I fully admit that the implications of outlaw status are more morally questionable than those of many other punishments. That's an important reason why, given little choice but to consider it in the case of repeat felony offenders, I insist that it ought to be a temporary status. It is, however, a fact that every punishment in existence is in some way a violation of human rights; it's merely a matter of which of the available possibilities are both useful and acceptable to society. Unfortunately, here it seems altogether too likely that if there is no circumstance whatsoever in which personal retribution is allowed, there are those among us who wouldn't accept being told to refrain from it. Compromise is often a grim process.