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Old 03-06-2008, 04:26 PM   #45 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by waitingtables View Post
So crazy, what is your solution? We have to protect society from criminals, how do we do that without locking them up? Death is not the same as imprisonment, not by a long shot.

Not once have I said that we should not lock up criminals. You are presenting a straw-man argument and completely failing to address what I am actually saying..

What I am saying and have been saying all along is that it makes no sense to plead the moral high ground when refusing to consider the death penalty for murderers deemed so dangerous that they must be kept in 24-hour lock down for the rest of their lives.

Such forced isolation & sensory deprivation is tortuous to most human beings. The effects of these have been well documented in psychological literature.

I know that if I, personally, were allowed to choose between super-max lock down for the rest of my natural life or execution, I would choose execution.

And don't even bother telling me that criminals don't get to choose their punishment. Because the very concept of eliminating the cruel and unusual in meting out punishment requires that we look at the punishment from the criminal's viewpoint. Otherwise justice would require that we cast aside all notions that a punishment might be cruel and go back to the eye for an eye concept of making the punishment fit the crime.



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