It's hearing news like this that pretty much craps on your life.
My anger and hatred for this little scroat has no boundaries.
My anger and hatred for this little scroat has no boundaries.
Manchester dogs home set on fire .
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I bet hanging has an even lower reoffending rate. If you cut out the endless appeals I bet its cheaper too.
answer my question first. Are you happy for the odd innocent to do the long drop? After all it protects the majority right?
The death sentence isn't a deterrent btw.
I've never heard of anybody reoffending after being executed. Do you know of any?
Its not a simple matter. We deny people life saving treatments on the basis of cost and yet pay fortunes to keep vile criminals in prison. So innocent people do die as a result of imprisonment.
Am I happy for any innocent to die? No. But they are already suffering as we are too cowardly to stand back and examine all the alternatives.
Can I live with it if it costs the occasional life but saves hundreds?
Yes.
Yes, I know. I worked in one for over 10 years and a jail for another year. I also have one cousin now on parole after spending a couple of decades in one for murder. I can honestly say, out of the hundreds of people I personally knew there, I only met one who didn't belong there. And he would have been paroled earlier if he could have curbed his honesty in front of the Parole Board.
Because the money saved on incarcerating them could be better used on medical treatments, housing the homeless, heating pensioners homes and all the other reasons honest hardworking people die from lack of money.
I'm not talking about deterrence, I'm talking about using the money that would have been spent keeping them in prison to save lives we cannot afford to save now.
Ah ok. By that rational maybe we should deny healthcare to all prisoners? Also people who have self inflicted problems. The obese and smokers? Those with dementia maybe too), I mean what's the point? We could also save a fortune if we screened feotuses for severe disabilities and aborted those too?
Dangerous path to tread red. Personally I believe if murder is a crime then it can't be metered out as justice.
Personally I think releasing dangerous prisoners out to murder and maim again is moral cowardice of the highest order.
We all have our beliefs - and neither of them has any particular monopoly on the moral high ground. Best to leave it there I suspect.
So maybe we can find a way to rehabilitate them so they don't offend again? Our justice system is broken. Not as broken as some though and we can still learn from others.
Deny medical care to smokers? No; but certainly charge them more for it (whether in higher insurance premiums as here or perhaps through a higher "smokers tax" there where you pay for it through the tax base0
Deny inmates medical care? Again, no. But we can certainly bill them to defray the cost (and other costs of incarceration) And yes, most county jails now do this. if the inmate has no money, he/she will still be treated and fed. But the minute any money is deposited into his inmate account, all debts to the county will be deducted before he/she is allowed to make a canteen purchase.
Abort unhealthy fetuses? I thought you were against murder?
Most psychologists agree that the personality (including criminakl personality) is set by around age 8. Rehabilitation is a myth.
I am. It was a question not a statement. It always amuses me how many anti abortionists are also ardent death penalty supporters.
Btw. Time to thread lock?
