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Supreme Court Ruling Opens Door for States to Resume Executions by Lethal Injection
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<blockquote data-quote="Arkanin" data-source="post: 46048895" data-attributes="member: 15308"><p>I have some pretty unconventional views on this, especially when considering my other views. My first thought is that it's more humane to kill someone than to force them to rot in prison for life. People don't want to acknowledge this only because it would force often small minds to accept the complete barbarism and futility of life imprisonment, not just the death penalty.</p><p></p><p>If we have to have life imprisonment, and I think we sadly do, I'd say give everyone assigned life imprisonment or death a "death penalty", with the right to life imprisonment instead. (If you reversed it, and gave prisoners life and a right to be die, inmates and activists would have a lot of religious and social issues about suicide -- but what they don't realize is that life imprisonment is merely a prolonged death sentence, so it's hardly suicide when you're choosing between death and death). At the very least, I think life inmates should have a right to die, since they're basically dead anyway.</p><p></p><p>This is really grisly and depressing stuff. What we <em>really </em>need to do is stop punishing frivolous crimes, gut and rebuild our jail system so it no longer turns the peaceful into violent criminals, start spending money on education and crime prevention, and work to deal with some of the cultural issues on our hands. We don't need to be putting people to death; we need to rehabilitate them before they get into prison.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arkanin, post: 46048895, member: 15308"] I have some pretty unconventional views on this, especially when considering my other views. My first thought is that it's more humane to kill someone than to force them to rot in prison for life. People don't want to acknowledge this only because it would force often small minds to accept the complete barbarism and futility of life imprisonment, not just the death penalty. If we have to have life imprisonment, and I think we sadly do, I'd say give everyone assigned life imprisonment or death a "death penalty", with the right to life imprisonment instead. (If you reversed it, and gave prisoners life and a right to be die, inmates and activists would have a lot of religious and social issues about suicide -- but what they don't realize is that life imprisonment is merely a prolonged death sentence, so it's hardly suicide when you're choosing between death and death). At the very least, I think life inmates should have a right to die, since they're basically dead anyway. This is really grisly and depressing stuff. What we [I]really [/I]need to do is stop punishing frivolous crimes, gut and rebuild our jail system so it no longer turns the peaceful into violent criminals, start spending money on education and crime prevention, and work to deal with some of the cultural issues on our hands. We don't need to be putting people to death; we need to rehabilitate them before they get into prison. [/QUOTE]
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