DEATH, PENAL COLONY OR PRISON LIFE
What's the best method of treating convicted murderers? Should they be given life in prison, or sent away to a penal colony for hard labor, or maybe a life sentence in traditional prison. Maybe it depends on the particular case in question. If the circumstances were unclear as to the intention, but a life was taken and found guilty, perhaps prison only. Murder of a child, perhaps death penalty. Murder of anyone, which sentence and does it matter? Or maybe the death sentence should never be used as the taking of life as a punishment is behaving like the criminal.Which punishment would make the best deterrent to crime?
What form of death should be used? Hanging, electrocution, drugs?
What about sending person to a penal colony away from normal civilisation?
Can you ever be sure of the guilty verdict?
Comments (14)
With mental disorders, I am not going to condone it as an excuse.
possibly even drunk drivers with habitual records of driving in such a state that have been in more than one related accident. years in prison might as well be a death sentence. better to remove the burden.
draw lines and uphold them. if the punishments fit the crimes, the idea of three hots and a cot might not ring so "comfortable" with many knowing they could have all of those "appeals" at tax payer expense. if it were more of a guaranteed punishment, it would likely have more impact on crimes committed.
the method used for carrying out the death penalty could be decided by the voters of each respective state. some already have more than one. the problem is that they aren't used as often as they might need to be for impact.
possibly even drunk drivers with habitual records of driving in such a state that have been in more than one related accident. years in prison might as well be a death sentence. better to remove the burden.
draw lines and uphold them. if the punishments fit the crimes, the idea of three hots and a cot might not ring so "comfortable" with many knowing they could have all of those "appeals" at tax payer expense. if it were more of a guaranteed punishment, it would likely have more impact on crimes committed.
the method used for carrying out the death penalty could be decided by the voters of each respective state. some already have more than one. the problem is that they aren't used as often as they might need to be for impact.
Brutalized and gruesome murders.
I'd give them the lethal injection as soon as convicted. These two have cost esch year 200 grand and still incarcerated.
ascertain how likely a false confession is, a false confession or a show trial. Think of the post office masters how the state treated them. Rather than blame the software or the system that was guilty they'd rather believe, against every shred of common sense, intelligence, honour and integrity - that an entire generation of post office managers had spontaneously become thieves. They sent one innocent person after another to prison so as to protect the new software they'd just updated the system with. Every one of them knew they were sending innocent people to jail but they're psychopaths running the justice system - that's not an opinion, it's a scientific fact.
As for punishment being a deterrent it doesn't really work that well. Catching those who are actually guilty is the deterrent, doing your best to limit the numbers of psychopaths who so naturally want to become a police officer or a judge is the deterrent.
ascertain how likely a false confession is, a false confession or a show trial. Think of the post office masters how the state treated them. Rather than blame the software or the system that was guilty they'd rather believe, against every shred of common sense, intelligence, honour and integrity - that an entire generation of post office managers had spontaneously become thieves. They sent one innocent person after another to prison so as to protect the new software they'd just updated the system with. Every one of them knew they were sending innocent people to jail but they're psychopaths running the justice system - that's not an opinion, it's a scientific fact.
As for punishment being a deterrent it doesn't really work that well. Catching those who are actually guilty is the deterrent, doing your best to limit the numbers of psychopaths who so naturally want to become a police officer or a judge is the deterrent.