This is why we send people to prison.

In a shocking murder attempt, Scott Peterson has been savagely beaten by fellow inmates at California's notorious San Quentin State Prison, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

The badly bloodied killer was rushed to the prison hospital, where he was stitched up — and then broke down in tears, reveal sources.

The 34-year-old fertilizer salesman — convicted of the brutal murders of his 8-months-pregnant wife Laci and unborn baby Conner — was ambushed on Sept. 21.

Guards were returning the handcuffed death row inmate to his cell when vengeance struck with a fury.

"Scott was literally beaten to a pulp while his hands were handcuffed behind his back," revealed a source.

I am trying to embrace peace in my life, and I wish I could say I was as forgiving as the Amish have been after their babies were shot to death while attending school, but I am not that forgiving. I have to say I enjoy that fact that Peterson has been humiliated and hurt for what he did to his wife and unborn child.

People who hurt women and children are the lowest pieces of shit on the planet and I cannot wish them anything but ill. Someday perhaps I will achieve the kind of outlook that Mahatma Gandhi embraced when he said; "There are many causes for which I am willing to die, but none for which I am willing to kill". Gandhi is my moral superior.