If anyone actually understood prison, they'd know that Life in prison is a worse penalty than Death.
Additionally, we know we have executed people wrongly, and that people whose death sentences were delayed were eventually overturned by new/better evidence... had we killed them, it would have been a posthumous exoneration, if anyone even bothered to look (what lawyer is really going to look a the case of a dead guy, in an attempt to prove he was innocent all along?).
Do people who commit such heinous acts deserve a bullet in the head, etc? Sure. But justice is not about revenge, it's about protecting society. Those who want to advocate for "victim's rights" (translate: special rights for those who have had a crime committed against them or their family members), as an excuse to do cruel and unusual things to the perpetrator, are damaging the very rule of law they seek to rely upon, by turning the law into a weapon of revenge... turning the nation/state into a murderer in order to show murder is wrong. Really?
As for the psychological programs, I can understand studying them (we already do), but if you think you can train an adult sociopath to learn empathy for others, you've never met one.
Additionally, we know we have executed people wrongly, and that people whose death sentences were delayed were eventually overturned by new/better evidence... had we killed them, it would have been a posthumous exoneration, if anyone even bothered to look (what lawyer is really going to look a the case of a dead guy, in an attempt to prove he was innocent all along?).
Do people who commit such heinous acts deserve a bullet in the head, etc? Sure. But justice is not about revenge, it's about protecting society. Those who want to advocate for "victim's rights" (translate: special rights for those who have had a crime committed against them or their family members), as an excuse to do cruel and unusual things to the perpetrator, are damaging the very rule of law they seek to rely upon, by turning the law into a weapon of revenge... turning the nation/state into a murderer in order to show murder is wrong. Really?
As for the psychological programs, I can understand studying them (we already do), but if you think you can train an adult sociopath to learn empathy for others, you've never met one.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
