Originally posted by mugsy
Don't get me wrong....I think they should have to spend their life pounding rocks in Alaska with bread and water...oh that's right...that might infringe on their rights....I forgot.

I'm still not convinced that it's more expensive to keep them for life. Then we have to support their cable TV, air conditioning, weight room,....
Ah, yes, their precious rights. Sorry, but I think if you commit a crime, you lose your rights. Period. End of story.




Well, pounding on rocks in Alaska may not be infringing on their rights, but killing someone who has been falsely imprisoned could definitely be seen as an erosion of one's rights.
Then, once again, the solution would be to give our legal system a serious overhaul if there is so much legal mumbo-jumbo that basic justice becomes cost-prohibitive ... or impossible to carry out.

I get sick and tired of people whining about the slow, faulty legal system ... innocent people imprisioned, guilty people set free, millions of tax-payers dollars spent per trial, etc. They whine and then they say, "Can't do this, can't do that ... too expensive, not possible." The solution is not to throw up our hands and bury our heads. If the death penalty is too expensive to enforce, then rewrite the laws, so that it is cheaper. If we are worried about bad lawyers and judges convicting innocent people, then make it tougher to become a lawyer or judge, and put in place a better policing organiztion for those professions. Just MHO ... but if we see a problem, we ought to fix it so that it works properly ... not keep on putting band-aids on a hemmorage, then crying about the pain.