Jimmy Higgins
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The thing is, is "life in prison" punishment enough? We have created these large box stores of prisoners where they endure inhumane conditions... and we are saying that is punishment. It costs money, a good deal of money, to think "wasting their entire existence" is a benefit for the crime(s) the people have committed. We don't want to make prisoners better, we want them to suffer. But while wasting away, do they care about what they did (merely cause they were caught?). Society gets nothing out of it.
The death penalty is just revenge... and in some egregious cases, it is probably valid.
In the end, neither solution is particularly great and that is mostly because of the harm they did to get us to this point in the first place. But with things as they stand, people should have to pay the same prices for the same crimes, and that is not what our system does either.
The death penalty is just revenge... and in some egregious cases, it is probably valid.
In the end, neither solution is particularly great and that is mostly because of the harm they did to get us to this point in the first place. But with things as they stand, people should have to pay the same prices for the same crimes, and that is not what our system does either.