Conflicting statements in the bible

[Brakeman]

So the prisoners that kill other fellow prisoners in jail should get a slap on the wrist because the lowest ranking person in society is an incarcerated prisoner.

Someone who kills another prisoner should (and would) get a lesser punishment than someone who killed the President of the United States, yes.

But you are wrong, they don't get a lesser punishment. The death penalty quickly enforced is the most severe punishment we have and as can be attested to by the names of executed prisoner roles, the quickest way to get this punishment is to kill a fellow prisoner, not a judge or a president. District Attorneys' are under social pressure to punish most severely those who attack the famous and powerful, but also they are pressured to punish more when the victims are young cute children or poor helpless elderly. When the assailant is already incarcerated, the DA.s take it as an attack on their authority and their ability to punish, so a prisoner gets no sympathy whatsoever, which is a worse position than if you had shot President Reagan and his crew.

The US justice system does not rank their punishments by the caste of the victims, otherwise this ranking would be written into the code.