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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:31 AM
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Poll question: If you were sentenced to life in prison for something you did
and you were given no possibility of parole. Given the choice would you:
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:32 AM
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1. Interesting question.
I went for the needle.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:32 AM
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2. Me too
Wanna share the bed? :rofl:
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:33 AM
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3. The needle is the easy way out.
This is why I think all capital murderers should be forced to have poster-size pictures of their victim(s) in their cells for the rest of their natural life. The first thing they look at after they wake up and before the go to sleep should be their victim.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:33 AM
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4. So far I appear to be the only one voting for life behind bars.
:shrug:
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:37 AM
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14. I'd take life behind bars, too, progmom.
:shrug:
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:37 AM
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15. I did too, progmom.
I can't imagine myself doing anything to warrant such
a punishment. But, where there's life there's hope.

It's possible that I could make *some* contribution to
society if I were still around.

So, I answered based on my personal feelings about
myself. Not on a generality.
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:39 AM
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17. I voted for bars too.
I'm assuming a basic cell. Cot, pot, 3 squares and a little room to pace a bit. That, and a supply of notebooks and pencils so I can write and I think I could keep myself from going nuts.

Take away the ability to write, or pace, and maybe I've got problems.
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:34 AM
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5. blame you
:P
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:35 AM
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6. depends on how much action i was getting in the shower room
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:36 AM
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8. LOL! My first thought tooo..... well, not action, but...
imagining just what my new girlfriend would look like. :scared:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:36 AM
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10. She'd probably look like me
:hide:
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:37 AM
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11. haaaaa
:rofl:
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:35 AM
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7. Life... with the option that if I can't stand it I can switch my choice.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:36 AM
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9. I'd sit it out. I don't do needles.
But that's not the main reason I'd sit out the sentence. I'd do it because my life would still be worth living.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:37 AM
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12. Serve...papillon would be my idol. (nt)
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:37 AM
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13. I would just tell them that I didn't do it
I would say I am innocent and they would let me go.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:37 AM
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16. Cruxifiction? No, they said I could go.
Oh, okay.

Cruxifiction? Yes. Name? Brian.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:47 AM
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21. I love this, but I copied it..it's not from my memory banks.
Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!
Girl: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.
Brian: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!
Followers: He is! He is the Messiah!
Brian: Now, fuck off!

Arthur: How shall we fuck off, O Lord?
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:41 AM
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18. It would depend on whether I felt guilt or remorse for what I did.
Edited on Wed Aug-17-05 09:41 AM by terrya
If I did feel guilt about the crime I committed, I would opt for the lethal injection. I wouldn't want to spend a lifetime being racked with guilt and remorse.
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:43 AM
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19. Good point.
Had I committed genocide through some form of negligence (I can't imagine doing so intentionally) I might choose the needle.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:50 AM
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23. I'd do the opposite... I would rather pay my karma in this life.
No matter what waits for us after death, I do have a hard time accepting that evil could be left unpunished. :shrug:
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:47 AM
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20. Just call me Andy Dufresne
Life, please. And a rock hammer.

:)
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Mr. McD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:48 AM
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22. If I go to prison It would most likley be for political reasons so
I would do the time and hope for a revolution.:)
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 12:07 PM
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24. No needle for me.
It's against my personal convictions. Anyway, I could probably use the time alone with my thoughts. I like my own company. And the schedule would be far less rigorous than the one I have now.

I'd miss the creamed corn, though.
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Trigger Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 12:08 PM
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25. I'll take the needle.
I'd wanna end that prison hell thing as soon as possible. I'd definitely be someone's bitch. :(
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 12:36 PM
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26. kill me please....jail is worse than death ever thought about bein'....
....I've seen first hand what it's like in a prison and what it does to someone who's had to spend time there...gimmie the injection...quick..fast and in a damn hurry! x(
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