I agree - I'm not a big fan of the death penalty for a few reasons. One is that our justice system isn't perfect, and there have been times, although few, when innocent people have been but to death. But my main reason is that it simply is not a harsh enough punishment. If you take the life of another person or commit some other heinous crime, your life should become a living hell. Death is the easy option. I would much prefer the punishment to be life in prison without parole. And I'm not talking about a prison term in one of those 'country club' penitentaries with cable tv and three hot meals a day. I'm talking about hours and hours of hard manual labor every day of the week.
I totally agree. The criminals’ life should become unbearable. If the crime committed is warrants the death penalty, then the criminal should be given the proper length rope and encouraged to do the deed himself. But the Government shouldn’t kill prisoners.
I think that killing criminals including terrorist is what they deserved. I battle with this issue in my mind which is why I started this post. I wanted to see Freepers work it over.
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