2007-05-17 04:14:56 · 9 answers · asked by Militant Agnostic 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Obviously you have never been to prison or been inside one at all. They get free food, free housing, free cable TV, free gymnasium equipment. They don't have to worry about any bills. They get free health care. How is that a death penalty?
2007-05-17 04:19:20 · answer #1 · answered by cyanne2ak 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your analysis is useful, and strikes to the heart of the entire penile/judicial system. We simply don't know what we want to do--are we trying to rehabilitate criminals? To prevent future crimes? To remove dangerous elements from the general population? To punish criminals? Exact revenge for the victims? The current (US) judicial system doesn't really succeed at any of these goals.
But, in a literal sense, I would say your analysis is wrong. It's not being in prison that kills a lifer, it's the very fact that life always results in death that kills the criminal. The death penalty, on the other hand, allows the state to determine the moment of death, and to set that moment significantly earlier than it would likely have been had the person not been convicted, or convicted but not given the death penalty.
2007-05-17 11:22:15 · answer #2 · answered by Qwyrx 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. If you don't believe me, ask people who are in prison (or better yet--the ones who got out) and those on death row.
Or--another way of putting it--isn't life itself just a death penalty that takes a really long time?
2007-05-17 11:21:32 · answer #3 · answered by zahir13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. A life sentence carries a chance of getting out on parole. The death penalty leaves no room for that.
2007-05-17 11:38:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The system makes mistakes. The execution of a wrongfully convicted person cannot be reversed. The stuff of nightmares. Intolerable. Life sentences take human fallibility into account.
2007-05-17 12:07:58 · answer #5 · answered by Susan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Cause of death is natural, not due to the actions of the state.
2007-05-17 11:18:07 · answer #6 · answered by evans_michael_ya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope.... You can always get time off prison for good behaviour. Only one person has been good enough to get time off death.
2007-05-17 11:19:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our system sucks! It should be about punishment, prisoners get too many perks and rights. Life in jail is still life however, no matter how you cut it.
2007-05-17 11:34:14 · answer #8 · answered by Leapers610 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pretty much.
Maybe the euthanaisa supporters could support letting the prisoners kill themselves.
2007-05-17 11:18:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋