[pearjuice]

Wait, what?

"[...] I have never come face-to-face with Franklin. I would love an hour in a room with him and a pair of wire-cutters and pliers, so I could inflict the same damage on him that he inflicted on me. But, I do not want to kill him, nor do I want to see him die."

He is basically saying that death is the easy way out and that torturing is a better punishment. This is why victims don't get to pick the punishments. They are way too emotionally impaired.