I personally find it quite bizarre that we as a community, even after establishing a full fledged functional court system, including a functional criminal court with a functional prosecution team, still ask individuals for OOC consent to be able to ICly take their criminal actions that they took towards a potential life sentence.
Note: I agree to the fact that this is considered Alt-RP, and requires Senior Administrator+ approval simply to deter just anyone from even being ABLE to be prosecuted for a life sentence.
Realistically, if someone commits multiple murders in real life and gets caught for it they get sentenced to life in prison. It makes no sense for serial killers, murderers and other die-hard criminals who are prominent in the community to keep killing people over and over and over to simply get away with it by just going to doc for 1 hour (as an example) and leaving simply after doing their time just to go and kill more people again and the cycle repeats. It is not realistic in the slightest. You are not El Chapo.
Essentially, my character can never be safe if someone "hunts" him because the killer will always manage to get out of prison, the only way to get out of this cycle is for my character to be killed (NLR) which is way less realistic as prosecutors IRL dont get killed for prosecuting people (99% of the time).
Recently, an individual within the community life sentenced their character after establishing them to be a serial killer and after LENGTHY and DEEP character progression and escalation as well as approval from Senior Admins+, stood on trial for the crimes they have committed and have been charged with a life sentence.
To sum it up, in my opinion, I think if someone chooses to take their character that path and to do these things prominently and actively, they should be punished icly for their actions, I dont agree with the "asking for OOC permission" part of this type of RP, it makes no sense for someone to ask oocly to be able to hold them accountable icly for their actions, this type of RP can encourage creative, lengthy and detailed criminal RP too.