Tales from the Jail: "Deputies?...yea, just as stupid." or "How PC has no place in jail"

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**Orkeosaurus**

Belphegor wrote:Death can't be retracted once someone is dead. That's the goal of the judge giving that sentence.

A person who has lost 30 years of their life in prison can't regain those either. Imprisonment can't be reversed, only lessened.

The goal a judge sentencing someone to life in prison is to put that person away for life just as much as the judge sentencing a person to death's goal is to have that person killed. They operate under the conclusion that the person is guilty, because that's the only way any person can have their freedom or life taken away.

I don't have particularly strong opinions on the death penalty one way or the other, but the issue with false convictions is the the convictions, not the sentencing.

**Kilkrazy**

I think you will find that executed people have a very low level of mental relief and happiness on being found innocent, compared to people who are released after being unjustly jailed.

**Orkeosaurus**

Yes, but they're also less annoyed prior to that.

**dietrich**

The problem with life imprisonment - is there is no way to guarantee that someone wouldn't get out. With US changes in judges and the law (including issues like overcrowding), 'life in prison' doesn't mean they'll die there. Some are released. I don't support the death penalty because it's a deterrent, I support it because people like Ted Bundy shouldn't ever have a chance of walking free again.

**Orkeosaurus**

Yeah, or The Joker.

**mcfly**

reds8n wrote:
mcfly wrote:Well, the few cases of being used wrongly shouldn't stop something useful.

since 1973 131 people have been released from Death Row due to proof of their innocence

Well, 131 is not all that many it in comparison to the people that have been put on death row in the first place.
Like I said, a few cases shouldn't stop something useful.
I would also prefer death over life in prison, due to the fact that being bored+ADD=not fun.

**OverbossGhurzubMoga**

Ya know, I think an "eye-for-an-eye" policy would work well here.

You kill people = you die.
You rape people = you have an object forced into an orafice several hundred times.
You rape little kids = you are drug behind a vehicle at 10 mph on a gravely road until dead.

Stuff like that.

**Da Boss**

No, that would mostly just be satisfying for our sense of vengeance and self righteousness. I doubt it would do much to stop people committing murders or rapes or whatever. Murder is generally a crime of passion, and rape is not something that a rationally thinking human being considers anyway- I think you might get some reduction with penalties that harsh, but not a huge reduction. And there's the problem of people being falsely accused.

**OverbossGhurzubMoga**

Of course there would be a trial and whatnot. I'm not talking about punishing everyone who is accused.

And besides, any reduction in crime is better than the current situation.

**Black Blow Fly**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I dunno, Put it on your legs for an MC Hammer type Parachute Pants look?

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**PanamaG**

Hordini wrote:I hear Australia has better gun laws than the U.S.

LOL

The solution is death penalty for murder, rape and child molestation. Solves a lot of problems all at once.