Because there's a difference between imprisonment and murder.
imprisonment for life is just as bad as death, in my opinion. i would prefer death to being in a cage forever.
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Because there's a difference between imprisonment and murder.
imprisonment for life is just as bad as death, in my opinion. i would prefer death to being in a cage forever.
imprisonment for life is just as bad as death, in my opinion. i would prefer death to being in a cage forever.
imprisonment for life is just as bad as death, in my opinion. i would prefer death to being in a cage forever.
That's exactly the point.
But that assumes that there's a choice for the prisoner between the death penalty and life imprisonment. Which, of course, there isn't.
if there's such a need for vindication though, wouldn't giving them a worse punishment be better?
what is it about human beings that forces them to be so OPPOSED to the death penalty. whether you're executing someone or keeping them in prison for life, you're effectively RUINING THEIR LIFE. Whether they're done existing or they're confined to a 10x10 ft cell for the rest of their eternity, they're done living.
(this is all disregarding the idea of parole)
If one is as bad as the other, I think giving a criminal a choice to be euthanised over spending their life in prison would be fair, it's not really the same as murder when the person actually wants to die.
Well, there is always the chance that a person sentenced to life in prison could be found innocent later, or something along those lines.
As is there a chance a known murder sentenced to life in prison might escape during a prison riot and go on to kill fifteen innocent people.
For-profit prisons are bad. They have a vested interest in having as many people as possible be imprisoned. They're totally against any drug-law reform, because it would mean a severe drop in the profits they can reap. That, and they specifically select all the 'good' and calm prisoners from existing jails, thereby keeping the costs down because they don't have to worry about violent, antisocial or addicted inmates. The only reason these prisons appear to be of any 'good' (and I use that term loosely) is because they cherry-pick inmates.Not nearly enough of them.
Wait what? Wouldn't you prefer prisons to be run in a not-for-profit fashion, similar to charities?Not nearly enough of them. And call me paranoid, but the last thing I want to see happen is a privatized, corporate-own and sponsored prison business sector a la Deadman Wonderland.
Life imprisonment has worked out for us.And suddenly I'm discussing prison politics with an Australian.
(Joking. Mostly joking.)
BBC News - California to vote on abolishing death penalty
I'm not a californian, but as an individual I support the idea.
It is completely factual that keeping the death penalty is noticeably more expensive than keeping someone in life imprisonment. Besides that, there have been a number of studies that show that it is a rather inefficient way of preventing crime and that crime rates may even go up after a widely publicized execution. Based on that alone I see little point in keeping it.
There are moral considerations here as well, obviously. imo i don't see much point in killing someone for anything because all it does is satisfy vindictive urges, the only time where it would ever be remotely justifiable is when the person in question has serious mental issues that prevent them from being able to care or learn from their misdeeds and they are proven to be completely incapable of ever contributing anything positive to society ever again (which is a tall order). It negates what should be the whole point of the justice system, which is to rehabilitate people, it can't even be considered a punishment in the sense that they won't be able to learn or apply anything to their lives afterwards because they'll be dead. Is some feeling of vindictive satisfaction worth someone's life?
Thoughts?
Been watching too many action flicks lately? Assuming you're not joking, it is rarity that prison breaks do occur (of which the percentage of the prison population that does usually floats between 0-2% depending on the year cataloged), and it's hardly ever from high-security facilities where murderers are being held.
Aldrain said:I am neither for nor against the death penalty, but I feel it hasn't done much. I think that to a degree, it was used for a sort of fear factor. Nobody wants to die. At least they shouldn't.
I think it should be rarely used, but when it is, it should be swift and clean. No drawn out crap, far less money drained into someone we're simply going to kill.
The people on death row already made their choice. They chose not to be a member of society, and because of this I do not support the abolishing of the death penalty.