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To: tejek who wrote (712997)	5/3/2013 11:44:39 AM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578933

>>>Throw him in prison for the rest of his life......he deserves nothing less........but I oppose the death penalty. Prison for life is a death penalty. The justice system is determining the conditions of death along with the loss of all social freedoms (theoretically) until that day comes. Society apparently considers a long term prison sentence culminating in death to be a more humane outcome than execution. Personally I would rather die free, or have my life in this world cut short than spend a life time in prison never having experienced a life of freedom beyond childhood, which is Dunlap's circumstance. The other issue which you don't address is, how is justice served? What crime has been resolved with life in prison for Dunlap? How is the underlying sense of fairness satisfied? How are the victims, victims families, and society at large reconciled with the heinousness of this crime? The fact is, there is no way to reconcile heinous criminality for the victims or with society at large. Forgiveness and mercy is a resolute determination that is so entangled with the personal elements of heinous crime that no management of the perpetrator of a heinous crime can satisfy these issues. Therefore, it is no more just to say the death penalty lacks mercy and forgiveness than it is to say that withholding death as a consequence is merciful and forgiving. There are certain crimes that rise to the heinous category for which we have no just and resolute remedy. Lifers have been known to continue heinous conduct even while incarcerated, or to establish some alternative form of unwholesome deviancy within the culture of incarceration. Being for the death penalty may address some individuals need for vengeance. Vengeance, however, is not an element in whether or not to consider the ultimate consequence. What should we consider? As an outcome, 1)is it resolute and fair, and 2)does it reconcile members of society with the nature of the event. Bragged: "... it felt better than having sex ..." (Killing innocent teen workers during his burglary of Chuck E Cheese's)