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Old 03-04-2008, 11:52 AM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CrazyFlamingos View Post
I understand that. I just don't think that it is particularly morally defensible. Why bother keeping these people alive and endangering the lives of innocent or, in the case of other prisoners, less guilty persons?

And the super facilities where they are in lock-down 23 hours a day are extremely cruel psychologically.

To me saying that incarcerating someone in supermax is morally superior to the death penalty is the same as saying it is morally superior to torture someone rather than to kill them.
Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber, spoke out about the very same subject on the supermax prison in Florence, CO. He realizes it is no paradise there.
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