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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (44)	1/13/2003 4:34:13 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 828

also they should be required to do some form of manual labor, hopefully in a constructive way sufficient for them to "earn their keep" or pay for their own incarceration. You're mistreating them! :-) i like the idea of extreme isolation for murderers, no tv, no entertainment...maybe some books to read. I don't remember why that approach was abandoned. Probably "inhumane". Know something? I'll bet the previous system- -flogging, stocks, isolation on distant islands- -worked no worse in terms of reform than the current one. Some learned from it; some didn't. Just like imprisonment. The basic idea today is (sort of) to make things nasty for prisoners so that they decide to change their ways. I can see where a good public whipping, then releasing them, could do that. And a LOT more cheaply, too.