Featured Life in prison or death penalty?

I think the concept is interesting, but why not just drop them on an island impossible to escape without any provisions. If they want to live, they will make their own way, and deal with the other prisoners.

 

One thing that has not been stated, death penalty laws in this country are based on US and the given state's law. It is not based on what Noah would have done, or what the laws were in ancient Israel.

 

Save the money and instead of building prisons in the Aleutians, just put hardened criminals to work. Rather than letting them sit around watching tv and smoking cigarettes, let em bust rocks in Death Valley or drain swamps somewhere. Forget PC. Punish them!

To me that's worse than death.

 

I think smoking is now banned in all prisons. I don't think you're allowed to have television either in the higher security ones. There are community ones in some, but they are careful with it, it's often an earned privilege, and they'll shut it off in a heartbeat if they even think it might mention something anyone is in there for.

I had to watch some hours upon hours of it for a law and justice deal on changes in the system and new security and health and blah blah blah. I don't remember half of it. I very specifically do remember what some people did to GET a smuggled cigarette and that nobody on earth would do that if they were ALLOWED to have them! Ewwwww

Anyhooo...I think I'd rather be put to death, personally, even if I wasn't guilty, than be in a prison. Shoot, I'd probably kill myself if they even tried to put me in a police car, that stuff freaks me out. Not my thing...I never did understand the criminal mind and how they could put themselves in that position! It's scary, and after seeing what it's like in there, triple that thought.

Now I have seen some women's minimum security stuff and wondered what the point was. Dorm style, they're basically just in a big home living a normal life. Why bother? That and for small crimes, how they have some people come serve their time when it fits their schedule. LOL They'll come when they get vacation time on work, or in the summer, or go to jail every weekend for months on end...how weird is THAT?!

WAY off topic here, but isn't that weird?!

 

kill her, and put her out of her misery.

 

Back in the 80's I did some work at Cummins prison in Ar., The work was getting the news of Jesus Christ to these men.
Some of the men get heavy in the system and they are some body, they don't want to get out of prison. Many get out and find out they aren't anything special in the free world so the do a crime to get caught and send back to where they are some body.
I never met any who said they would rather be dead than be in the prison( and I'm sure there are a few). Why do they spend so much government money and other's money to appeal their death conviction.

 

Well, now you've met your first, Bob. I've seen enough to know that would be my choice.

churchmouseguy, you echo my thoughts from earlier in the thread - that earthly punishment for crimes still must happen. I never thought about the "swift" aspect of it, though I agree that our justice system is corrupt beyond belief.

 

Gina I'll take you at your word, but I was talking about inmates, not free world people talking about death to life locked up.

 

I think there probably are some people who ant to stay in prison because they are big fish there. But I tellya, if the prison system worked these folks like they did in the film "Cool Hand Luke", that number would likely drop significantly.

 

You could be correct, but I don't believe laws will allow that today. I know even years ago if the temperature was above or below a set degree, they couldn't be worked.

 

I just watched AEBio. They were running this story on Moses Sithole (pronounce seet-ho-ley). This serial killer murdered 37 women, and one child (didn't say how old the kid was), and raped 40 women.
No death penalty.
So he was sentenced to 2000 plus years in prison in post-apartheid South Africa.
In prison it was discovered he had AIDS, so he got treatment in a prison hospital courtesy of South African taxpayers.
His wife and child were not as lucky.
lol.
They were infected by him, but because they were not prisoners, nor rich, nor serial killers/rapists like Moses Sithole, they will most likely die of the disease.
Crime pays, doesn't it ?

 

Does make one think!!!