When you say that the death penalty is cruel, you obviously have no idea what life in prison is like.

[pknopp]

Cherry picking trolling fork. He didn't kill anyone before going in. His charts messed with the elite.//

He likely did but besides the point. Who ever killed again after getting their death sentence removed?

 

[Invisibleflash]

Rasheed Johnson, not happy with his situation, and he probably has some legitimate complaints. When you commit murder at 18 you kind of limit your options and force the rest of the world to figure out what to do with you. Jim Webb who was once the sec Navy and presidential nominee had some real ideas on prison reform but was disgusted with our corrupt system. Confining someone, especially here in the US is almost impossible with the hate being spread by the media and people in charge. There is no nice way to do it. When you think you're saving someone by eliminating the death penalty it's like saying No Nuclear Wars but ignoring how terrible conventional wars actually are. Calls grow for new Red Onion State Prison investigation

Death penalty is fine. It just takes too long to kill the criminals.

 

[Mr Natural]

There’s a big difference between living and being alive.

Given the choice between life and prison and the death penalty, I’ll take the death penalty every time.

What the hell, it all ends the same way anyway.

 

[leftwinger]

Give them a choice. 23 hours a day or hang sheet rock in July in new builds 12 hour days with water and white/bologna & porta potties only. Mess up? Act up, back to 23 hours lockup. No talking.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Red Onion is a supermax facility for the tremendous Commonwealth of Virginia. Guys don't get sent there until they **** up elsewhere in the penal system.

Rasheed has apparently show himself unable to live in a civilized manner, and guys who are just doing their time in less restrictive facilities for mattress tag tearing or other non-violent felonies don't deserve to have him as a cellie.

You sure seem to know a lot about life in the big house. How long were you inside for ? What was your beef? You used to tell us interesting stories about rape in prison and how you "fought for your manhood" But, you never told us if you won.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

The existence of the death penalty gives murderers a motivation to plead guilty and admit they did the crime.

It isn't just the actual seat in the electric chair that inmates are avoiding, but also the many years of solitary that death row inmates endure before taking the hot seat.

Life imprisonment on a yard with interaction with other convicts, playing poker for cigarettes, isn't nearly as bad as solitary.

The existence of the death penalty does not make anyone safer, does not heal the victims and does not provide short term closure -if any- for the survivors. It does , however add to the sun total of violence in society and diminishes or right to claim that we are advances and civilized

In some cases, murderers are are motivated by the possibility of being executed, similar to the " suicide by cop" thing or the mass murderer who knows that they will die and wants to die

Murder Rate of Death Penalty States Compared to Non-Death Penalty States | Death Penalty Information Center

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

deathpenaltyinfo.org

 

[Meathead]

The existence of the death penalty does not make anyone safer, does not heal the victims and does not provide short term closure -if any- for the survivors. It does , however add to the sun total of violence in society and diminishes or right to claim that we are advances and civilized

OK, but it is by definition, justice.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Death penalty is fine. It just takes too long to kill the criminals.

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[playtime]

i have no problem with the death penalty for murderers & rapists.

 

[PeterPilot]

The best way to make a young dog vicious is to keep it caged up. The same dynamic applies to young humans.