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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule
I understand all the venting in here, as I said the DP should apply in this case. However, having a civilized society, and rule of law, is done so that mob brutality, or individual vendettas are not carried out. It's one thing for the state to properly convict, sentence, and execute a murderer, especially truly horrific or brutal ones. It's another to call for someone to "take this into their own hands". Where does that line get drawn.
No I don't hope someone takes this into their own hands, I hope this man is convicted in a court of law, given the harshest sentence possible, and if possible placed on death row to be executed. There is a difference between life in prison, and life on death row. Life in prison means that you will in fact have a life, you will eventually work your way up in a hierarchy of hard criminals, and at some point the brutalities you have shown, become badges of honor. Life on death row, is the solitude that JoeRedskin talked of. you have no hope, except pardon, or legal maneuverings. you get no interaction except guards and minimal exercise required by individual states. You think day in/out of what caused you to be in there. and in the end this 20 something man's life, for as long as he has left, would be a shell where he would only think of what led him to that point.
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Well it was more of an emotional response than a "somebody SHOULD do it" type thing. I really wouldn't care if someone in prison did it though. I just don't think that it shoudl be the govt/judge/jury's right to decide if someone should die or not; keep them out of society? Yes! Kill them? No.
Serving life in prison may give them freedoms if they're alongside other inmates but it's no glamorous life even in its own setting. You're still going nowhere and you give the guards a job to do and maybe Bubba decides he wants to get to know you a bit better, karma is a bitch. Life in solitary is great too for the reasons that you've mentioned, which can be done in a life sentence without death row. However a lot of people who behave will probably eventually get moved out of solitary.