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Originally Posted by bookworm_020
So there feeling blue about spending the rest of their lives in jail? What about the people who live with the life sentence of the loss of love ones or the injurys they suffered due to them? Death is easy, life is the hardest sentance.
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Ah the old victim's rights routine.
Contrary to what you say I'm pretty sure that almost everybody gets over a person's death before they get over not being free. People put death behind themselves all the time and move on. But being incarcerated for the reamainder of your life, robbed of the human dignity to decide your own fate is a punishment that actually exceeds death in its horror. There have been too many revolutions and wars where people have died for freedom.
And the justice system isn't about the victim's families. Its about the crime. The punishment isn't about retribution on behalf of the agrieved. Its about rehabilitation or the protection of society.