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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (332500)	4/10/2007 7:04:45 PM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1573130

>But it's getting to be a little too much when even a life sentence is considered inhumane. I guess some guy who stabbed his wife 26 times with a paring knife deserves mercy because he's too old to cause any more trouble. Is that it? Heck, he even said "sorry." OK, I guess that makes up for it all. Funny how "sorry" doesn't even work with my wife if I forget to call her at a certain time. I'm not arguing with you here. >By the way, I can already anticipate what the response is going to be. "We should focus on reforming our inmates over just locking them up." Eh... not for murderers. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (332500)	4/11/2007 2:25:08 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573130

I can understand if our society no longer has the stomach to carry out capital punishment. Gone are the days where convicted criminals are taken out to the gallows and hung in public to make an example. These days, even a lethal injection is considered inhumane because some judge thinks the recipient might feel it. There is a significant percentage of the incarcerated who have been wrongly accused......I seem to remember 30% but that might be too high. So how many innocent people have we put to death over the past 100 years? I shudder to think of the number. Maybe that's why there is a growing objection to execution. But it's getting to be a little too much when even a life sentence is considered inhumane. I have never heard that said. I have heard them make exceptions for people who are dying but I see nothing inhumane in locking up someone for life when that person has committed murder.