America and Life Prison Terms

[A Black Falcon]

I am of the opinion that there are things far worse than death.

No, there isn't. Death is final.

But seriously, I think death should be reserved only for psychotic serial killers and terrorists who are beyong treatment and help. One has to understand that nothing happens without reason; if someone is ill or crazy enough to willingly kill someone, then they're obviously either ill or crazy... not in their right minds. It's a shame that they're not more treatable. Someone who doesn't know wrong from right is like a child, it's a shame that they have to be killed. Then again, this is a society of revenge, so we kill them when our blood boils hot enough.

We don't try very hard to rehabilitate people in prison...

We should instead kill them so that we're certain they won't cause any more damage to society, and to prevent them from living for sixty years courtesy of my hard-earned tax dollars.

But it's state-sanctioned murder, which I find awful... and the death penalty isn't cheaper anyway, if you want to pretend morality doesn't exist. Actually, it's more expensive, last I remembered... and saying "then we should reduce appeals" is utterly wrong. We kill enough innocent people as it is...