My father doesn't believe in capital punishment either. His belief, like Sarandon's, is that it is more expensive to execute someone (due to court appeals, etc) than for the criminal to spend his life in prison. My reply to him is, "assuming that you are correct, what we need to do then is wait until there are 6 or 7 inmates with the same execution date and have "group therapy"...put them all in connecting chairs and pull the handle once..."
We have heated arguments over this because I don't understand how someone can be against capital punishment but also be pro choice. I don't know what happened to my Dad...when he was younger he was against capital punishment, but at least he was a conservative on all other issues...now at 80, he's still against capital punishment but votes democrat almost every election....it is driving me crazy!....
Many "lifers" don't simply accept their sentence and whittle away their time in jail. They file appeal after appeal in both situations. If they run out of appeals concerning their actual case, they start filing lawsuits concerning conditions in the prison. If not that, it's something else.