I will answer that in the spirit in which it was offered. Touchie-feelie has been rampant forever, and you mean well.
But I respectfully disagree.
It doesn't take guts to embrace the copout. It takes consummate arrogance.
The arrogance to ignore that the human ant colony isn't perfect, or never subject to irrational change.
If one "life" prisoner escapes and kills again, it renders your argument moot.
And since it has already occured more than once, the entire argument is forfeit.
We don’t only need to worry about an escape. Look to the number of correctional officers, nurses, doctors, teachers and other prison personnel who have been killed by people sentenced to life in prison.
Once a murderer is in prison for life there is absolutely no incentive to not kill again.
***should we really have state sanctioned execution? Unless we don’t have the guts to maintain truly life imprisonment.
I will answer that in the spirit in which it was offered. Touchie-feelie has been rampant forever, and you mean well.***
It’s not touchy feely. It’s being pro life. If an armed intruder breaks into my house, he’s going to deal with my .357 and my Mossberg 500 because that is the only means that I have to defend my wife and children. If he is truly incarcerated, then he will have no means to be able to escape and do that again. When I say weld the bars shut, I say that advisedly. But state sactioned execution, once granted, has no end and no limits.
***If one “life” prisoner escapes and kills again, it renders your argument moot.***
If I allow a hamster in a cage to escape, is it the hamster’s fault or is it mine?