When Vasudeva and Devakis son was going to kill him, why did Kamsa keep them in the same prison cell?

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Hare Krishna.
Question, why did Kamsa not put Vasudev and Devaki in separate cells when he knew that their son was going to kill him? Answer, because he wanted to, out of his arrogance, prove that he could falsify a prophecy of the gods. Answer in detail. First, when he heard the prophecy, he was so fearful and furious that he immediately wanted to behead Devaki.
When Vasudev besieged and pacified him, promising to give his children to him. So he thought at that time, he agreed, not just because of the kindness of his heart, not just because of the sweetness of the words of Vasudev, they were definitely there. These words were very conciliatory and persuasive.
But along with that, Kamsa, he was Asura. He was a demon. Asurastha Viparyayo.
That Asuras always want to go against the cosmic order. So Kamsa, he had already upset the cosmic order by his prowess where even the gods were often afraid of him. And that’s why the gods had besieged Vishnu to appear sometime before that.
So now, normally humans have to submit to God, but the gods were in fear of Kamsa. And Kamsa was filled with arrogance because of this, thinking that he could disrupt the cosmic order. So he thought that if now this Akashvani has come, this celestial voice has come, if I can falsify it, then how great will be my glory? That this 8th son was born and the 8th son was supposed to kill me, but then I killed the 8th son.
So in this way, I falsified the divine prophecy and I proved the gods and the higher powers wrong. So he took that in his own perverted way as a challenge to further disrupt the cosmic order and to falsify the words of the gods. So that’s why he allowed Vasudeva and Devaki to stay together so that they would beget a child.
And that’s why he did not have her child child aborted. He wanted the child to be born. Okay, you were going to kill me, I will kill you.
And initially his plan was that he would kill only the 8th son. But when he got the news from Narada Muni that the gods were planning actively for a conspiracy and they were taking birth among the humans so that they could rid the world of demons like him. So he became jittery and he decided to kill even the first son.
So there was that malicious delight that he was getting when he would kill a child. You are going to kill me, I will kill you. So like that he killed 6 children, the 7th slipped away.
So the point was he wanted to use his distorted conception of Kshatriya might. Kshatriyas are meant to represent God and protect as God would protect. But here he was misusing Kshatriya might to disrupt the divine order and to falsify what the gods had said.
He thought that let this child be born and after the child is born I will kill him at that time and in that way my glory will be enhanced. So out of that distorted Asuric arrogance, he allowed Asudev and Devaki to live together so that they could beget a child and then he could proclaim to the world that I killed my killer, I killed the one who was to be my killer and I proved the words of the devatas false. But actually these were not the words of the devatas, these were the words of the Supreme Being and that word of the Supreme Being ultimately turned out to be true and the 8th son did kill Kamsa eventually.
Thus proving is reducing his hubris to debris. Thank you.