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Justan Olphart

On 2/9/2015 4:59 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/9/2015 12:01 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 23:23:39 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 2/8/2015 11:11 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 18:17:15 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Seems like *everyone* is bipolar now-a-days.

There is a lot of money in mental illness so it does get diagnosed
more than it may actually exist.

So, you and Greg feel that a person who kills someone but is
determined
to be insane should just automatically to to the chair ... or lethal
injection gurney?

It would depend on the depth of the "mental defect" (the legal term)
and the severity of the crime but if it was a capital case and
abhorrent enough to survive all of the mandatory appeals, why not
execute them just like you would anyone else?

I also see little difference between life in prison and life in a
correctional mental facility. It is just a prison with a prescription
drug plan. They keep the inmates drugged into submission. Is that a
life? (yes I have been in one in my job)

I have a tough time with the death penalty period. I don't think
any person, judge or jury has the moral right to determine
who lives and who dies. It's an ultimate and very final decision.

I think it may have a bad past with poor people not getting a decent
defense but that is largely in the past. I still think we need
something more than simply warehousing a person for life, if that is
also the penalty for a serious drug charge.
Once you have sentenced a person to life, what else can you do to them
when they kill again?
What is the benefit to society in keeping them alive if you have
already said they are sentenced to death by prison? You are only
creating a more dangerous environment for the other inmates and the
correctional officers when these guys know they can't be punished any
more, no matter what they do.

You make the argument that it's just more "convenient" to execute them.
I just don't accept that anyone has the right to terminate a life.

Maybe making the prison environment for life sentences less pleasant is
an option. Work for food. Work for any type of privileges. Work for
the right to have a TV or any form of entertainment. Let the inmate
make the decision on how he wants to spend the rest of his life.
Stop worrying so much about an inmate's quality of life. Make him
accountable for it.

How about cracking rocks or shoveling snow. Nobody said a lifer's
existence should be easy. No TV or entertainment either. ;-)

--

Respectfully submitted by Justan

Laugh of the day from Krause

"I'm not to blame anymore for the atmosphere in here.
I've been "born again" as a nice guy."

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