“It isn’t a quality life” is the liberal answer. “Can’t afford it” is another response.
Yet when it comes to a lifetime sentence in an 8’x10’ prison cell, it is “preferable” to the “cruel and inhumane” punishment of a death sentence.
Stalinists lie. Always.
Abolishing the death penalty, in my opinion, is just one step along the way to abolishing prisons. Once the death penalty goes, the new target will become life without parole. Then life sentences, and so on.
It’s not a principle. It’s an agenda.