Butchered use of the verb, "need." If you "need" something, you profit or benefit from it or stand to suffer from not obtaining it. You "need" food, shelter, water, and oxygen. You "need" recognition, love, acceptance, etc.
It realy grates on my nerves to hear somebody say, "That convicted rapist "needs" to die." NO HE DOESN'T!! Society may "need" for him to die but it most definitely does NOT benefit him to die. There are a whole lot of things he needs but to die isn't one of them. ERGGGG!!