(August 4, 2022 at 9:11 am)Deesse23 Wrote:(August 4, 2022 at 5:32 am)bennyboy Wrote: ... a life sentence, being almost as life-ruining as an execution, .....Please re-read what you wrote here, and let it sink in for 5 seconds.
I don't need to re-read it, because I thought about it when I wrote it. It depends what you mean by "life."
If you're talking biology, death is absolute. It's the worst thing that can happen.
But if you're talking about the human narrative-- growth, discovery, pleasure, ambition, hope, and so on-- I'd say that a life sentence is pretty much the end of a meaningful human existence. It is sufficiently horrible that it should automatically trigger the same compensations and considerations of execution-- extensive appeals, discovery of new evidence, and so on.
In short, re a previous post, an execution should NOT be more expensive to carry out than a life sentence.
