Reply #88: Well I would agree if there were an alternative [View All]

[dmallind]

How CAN we prevent them from killing again. Other inmates? Guards? Keeping them off the streets just puts them on the corridors where dope smokers and car thieves go. I think civilized society should protect them too. So do we really mean solitary in shackles and cuffs for life without parole? How else to prevent reoffense?

And I disagree that death is more wrong than life in maximum security with the appropriate restrictions needed to protect those other inmates and guards. Give me the choice between that and a few minutes on the lethal injection gurney and it's goodnight Gracie from me for sure.

One other issue since we are talking about subjective ideas and imputed causal connections here but let's say you get your way. The very worst thing that can happen to a prisoner is life without parole. The prisoner is given life without parole for a brutal murder. Exactly what incentivizes that prisoner to behave? What gives him a reason to comply with the guards or a reason NOT to kill other inmates who annoy him? There is no negative consequence left.