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Originally Posted by ASWnut101
Removing Captial Punishment? That's a mistake waiting to happen.
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I'm sure Ruth Ellis, were she alive today, would completely agree with that sentiment.
On a slightly different note:
I'm also damn sure that I'd rather be wrongly convicted and imprisoned, than wrongly convicted and hanged, our legal process being the stout and ever infallible form that it is.
Besides which, spending the 'rest of your natural life' in incarceration is an infinitely more awful punishment than being killed by the state; as you are reminded of exactly why you are there every single day. My only concern regarding this is that prisoners who have committed the most terrible crimes should not have access to things like 'creature comforts' (not the plasticine animations) or hot water (for example) or satellite TV. A desperately Spartan and cloistered existence should be theirs, with minimal contact with other human beings. Near close enough to solitary as is deemed acceptable under the circumstances. People like Myra Hindly & Ian Brady, Rose & Fred West, Peter Sutclife, who inflicted such terrible curtailment of their victims lives deserve, no less.
I think for many it matters not if they are 'insane' or mentally ill or whatever, just that these people are kept away from society at large, regardless of their 'progress', remorse or re-education behind bars. Some acts simply set an individual outside of the realms of normal behaviour and morality and as such they should remain so, isolated and impotent to continue their aberration of body and soul.
For those who commit murder as something
not connected to a violent sadistic or sexual intent, then the law should consider the circumstances and sentence accordingly under existing guidelines for terms of imprisonment.
As for the common yobbo youth criminal, most of them would benefit from a stint of 1940's military discipline to teach them some bloody manners and respect for when they get out of prison.
A sentence of 'life' should really mean life... otherwise you might just as well say 14 years with good behaviour.
