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First, you need to determine whose sensibilities you are trying to spare: the offender's or society's. Then you have to realize that the offender has feelings, society doesn't. The only thing important to society as a whole is practicality.
Consider for a moment that the punishment that a society metes out is more a comment on that society than the crime the offender committed. Now consider that locking someone up, typically in a cell for 23 hours a day for the rest of his life, in isolation for pretty much everyone, is extremely harsh and the fast road to insanity for that person. Consider also that, according to most states' DOC's, the cost of incarceration is in the tens of thousands, and highest for the highest level, most secure prisoners. Prison is not a pleasant place. It is not intended to be. However, life in prison is an inhumane punishment.
What is a human life worth? No matter the crime or how heinous it might have been, the convicted person is someone's daughter or son, could be a wife or husband, might be a mother or father, a sister or brother. They matter or mattered to someone. Punishing the offender punishes the loved ones too.
That all being said, it is far more humane and practical to simply put a bullet in someone's head than to put him on a shelf for twenty to sixty years and drive him irreversibly insane, AND to create a drain on society's resources.
The image above may seem harsh, but the only more humane way to end a life is hanging, and the lead up to that potentiality is incredibly inhumane.
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What percent of criminals say life in prison is worse than the death penalty?
The percentage of criminals that say life in prison is worse than the death penalty is estimated to be above 60. It is quite tormenting to know that the rest of your life will be confined to the prison walls.
Do you the tax payers feel it is cheaper to support someone in prison sentenced to life or execution?
It is obviously cheaper to execute a prisoner than to support someone for life in prison; but that isn't how we make decisions that involve life and death in this country.
Why did Socrates stay in prison?
Socrates chose to stay in prison and accept the death penalty rather than flee because he believed it was important to follow the laws of the state, even if he disagreed with them. He saw his commitment to reason and integrity as more valuable than his own life.
What is 35 to life?
Generally, the reference is to a prison term. 35 to life would be a sentence of no less than 35 years, and no more than life in prison.
Is jail for life more effective than capital punishment?
Life in prison is not necessarily more effective than capital punishment. A murderer who is dead can never kill again. A person who is serving life in prison can still kill inmates and prison guards, although the chances of that are really small. Life in prison is more effective in the way that it costs less money to keep someone in jail than it does to have them executed. A person who is serving life in prison and later found out to be innocent can be freed and not be in prison anymore.
How life was in the mid ages?
worse than now.
Why have schools evolved into prison like places?
They haven't. Schools in the past were far worse than schools today.
A sentence with the word prison in it as a metaphor?
For dad, a trip to the mall just before the holiday season is worse than a lengthy prison sentence. Having to enroll in summer school was nothing short of a prison sentence for him.
Did Hitler send people to prison?
Yes, and he sent millions to concentration camps and termination camps which were worse than prisons.
What is US Punishment for Conspiracy to Commit a Terrorist Act?
This is often considered treason. This means that you will either get life without parole at a Federal Prison (much worse than normal prison, as most people who commit treason are often hated by the convicts as well meaning bad) or the death penalty.
Is life without parole in solitary confinement worse than capital punishment?
Some people do think life without parole in solitary confinement is worse than capital punishment. Since you would have to be alone for the rest of your life.
Isn't life in prison a better punishment than the death penalty?
It is obious that those comdemed to die, would rather live in prison all their life.
