Wrong. The appeals court held up all the charges that weren't related to the death penalty, so he's not getting out of jail anytime soon. But, because the original judge didn't properly vet the jurors during the death penalty phase, they are throwing those rulings out, and will have another trial for the death penalty phase.
And, chances are pretty good that he's gonna be sentenced to death again.
So long as he breathes he's able to kill again. OK, maybe to kill only prison guards or fellow inmates. But if that floats your boat...... Buit, out of curiosity, do you hate all law enforcement or just guards?
Really? Sorry, but if he's in jail, he's not gonna kill innocents.
A C.O. just trying to do his job isn’t innocent?
So to make sure I understand your point, as weak as it is. If we execute the Boston Bomber, then the aforementioned Corrections Officer would face no dangers from any of the other prisoners?
You do realize that the idiot is at the Supermax in Colorado, where he spends 23 hours a day in a concrete cell. Before he leaves that cell, he is shackled and chained by teams of guards. So there is literally never a moment when one guard is present alone with the idiot. He is spending his life, essentially every minute of it, in a cell made of concrete without anything else to occupy his time.
Now that Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, has been sentenced to death, his final destination will be in the hands of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Amnesty International said that the Supermax made Guantanamo Bay seem cheerful and open by comparison. Think about that.
But hey, you want to see him die, instead of die a little every single day as his life passes him by. Give him life in that hell, and let him slowly die watching the lines in his face get clearer every day. Nothing but a few carefully selected TV programs, if he is allowed a basic black and white TV, and some carefully screened books. If he is allowed books. Meals slid under the door. His entire life in a concrete box unable to see the sky, or the outside world. No escape, no hope, nothing but a living death.
But that isn't cruel enough for you. Despite the fact that many people in it consider it worse than death. What do they know? In time, the Idiot will go insane inside that concrete box, and his world will be one of delusions, hallucinations, and paranoia. So even his faith will have been stripped from him.
You want to take his life, while that cell would take so much more from him. Which answer would be the most cruel? Which answer would cause him the most suffering? A needle in the arm, or being forgotten in a concrete box, for the rest of his life, never again seeing the sky? Never even glimpsing it.
You are confused. I don't want anyone to suffer. That sick animal simply needs to be removed from this earth. The government has a responsibility to exact the most extreme punishment for the most extreme crimes.
Punishment is suffering. When you were a child, you were spanked. This used pain to teach you a lesson. Don't do this, or that. Punishment, was pain, and suffering. When you got older, you were grounded for breaking the rules. Denied the opportunity to go and enjoy time with friends, or events you wanted to attend. You suffered by being denied freedom.
When you started driving, and got a speeding ticket, you suffered the loss of the money for the fine. Either you learned to avoid the penalties, by not performing the action, or you suffered the loss of driving licenses. Punishment is always suffering. Even the death penalty is suffering. You suffer the ending of your life. You spend years thinking about it every single day. Lawyers and activists increase your suffering by offering you hope, slim hope they will tell you, as they try the various things they must to save your life.
There can be no punishment without suffering. If sentenced to prison for three years. You suffer the loss of freedom, you suffer the basic sustenance foods, and uncomfortable beds and all that. Punishment is always about suffering. Society is saying you broke the rules, and you should suffer in punishment.
Even my own approach in most cases, of rehabilitation, is part of the suffering. I am astonished by the Norwegian system which has an exceedingly low recidivism rate. While their system does not have the maximum control and restrictions ours does, there is suffering involved, and education to decrease the odds of an offender repeating.
So suffering is part of it. As you suffered as a child, when you misbehaved. Don't worry, we all misbehaved as children. People suffer as adults.
In the book Starship Troopers, it is said that punishment should be cruel and unusual. It should be cruel enough to serve as a lesson to the offender, and a warning to others. And unusual in that it does not happen very often. In a way, that is right. But punishment for those who will get out of Prison one day, should also be coupled with education, the rehabilitation that is not really present in our system.
The Death Penalty is not a deterrent. It does not frighten people so they do not commit crimes. It is not cruel, as it reduces the suffering, the punishment the offender could endure. It is not safer for the guards, Lifers are similarly restrained and the person with the Death Penalty has nothing to lose. What are you going to do to them? Kill them? If anything it is riskier for the guards. Anyone with literally nothing to lose is extremely dangerous. The old saying about the Cornered Rat comes to mind.
Whereas someone who is serving Life without Parole. They have a lot to lose, and more incentive to behave. If as at the SuperMax, they act up, they lose TV's, and books. The system is designed to minimize contact between the guards and the prisoners. Less chance for any contact, or any chance to attack and harm one. The guards always work in teams. Never alone.
So the prisoner throws a tray of food at the door, since he can't throw it at the guards. They shrug and note it and move on. A little later, he is restrained through the inner door, a traditional barred door. Once he is in full shackles, they come in and take the TV away. Now he has even less to occupy himself. Not even PBS. When he behaves for a while, say a few weeks, he gets a TV back.
He has learned. Not only is attacking the guards impossible, but the futile effort results in nothing but more suffering. He has something to lose, and he has an incentive to behave, and the guards are safer.
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