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Originally Posted by Professor S
Maximum security prison for life with no chance of parole. The question isn't about punishment, but about the value of human life and who gets to make those decisions. I don't think we get t make those decisions unless we are trying to save our life or others. If prison can fit that need just as well, we should use it. Besides, prison is NOT pleasant and I would consider a life term a fate worse than death, honestly.
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I would disagree completly. You can't honestly say that you'd chose to die over sitting in a cell for the rest of yor life getting free (and instant) medical care, free food, and still being able to socialize. (You'd even get to see your wife/kids again, isn't that enough worth living for?) Now if the prisons were actually tougher by nature, and were a form of torture in a way... then I could see how someone would chose to die. But these days you still have a life, even behind bars.
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You don't have to kill someone to take their life. A lifetime of hard labor can be punsihment enough. Keep in mind, I'm also for alternative punishments as well. Say, if a child molester elects to castrate himself for parole, I'm all for it. The goal should be to correct and/or prevent behavior, not to apply vengeance.
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I disagree, if you let a person like that go no matter what they did, its a huge risk of the family of the victim taking things into their own hands. If you take the example from my previous post (and I'm talking REALLY taking it into consideration), and the guy castrated himself to get out on parole, and you met them in a store face to face knowing what they did without a doubt...
Well, lets just say that's one of those situations where human's "animal nature" comes out. You're not going to be able to think straight, trust me.
Here's what I think the problems are:
1) The death penalty has been given to people who are innocent.
2) The alternative to death (going to prison) is not harsh enough punishment for some crimes.
Here's what I think the solutions would be:
1) Death penalty should only be reserved for crimes that are public displays, and that are caught on tape. And when its sentanced it should hapen quickly, instead of allowing the govt to waste tons of money on keeping them on death row.
2) If someone is found guilty of a crime that gives them a life sentance.. we should have much harder prisons that are harsh enough to give the prisoner the illusion that they're dead. No visitation, no TV, no reading, no socializing, just a bed, 4 walls, and 3 meals. No parole, either.
3) IF someone is found guilty and sentanced to a life sentance and they're eventually found to be innocent of the crime. The government should provide some type of aide to the prisoner for the rest of their life because this occurance is the result of a broken judgement system.
That's just my opinions on it. I value human life just as much as the next guy, but some people do deserve to die.