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In this case should one be allowed to request a death penalty? Wouldn't 150 years in jail be considered cruel and unusual punishment?
by jhabdas 8y ago
In this case should one be allowed to request a death penalty? Wouldn't 150 years in jail be considered cruel and unusual punishment?
- lmm 8y ago> should one be allowed to request a death penalty? If prison conditions are bad enough for someone to even consider that, that's a damning indictment of the prison system. > Wouldn't 150 years in jail be considered cruel and unusual punishment? Certainly not unusual, and jail doesn't seem inherently cruel, if we believe some people are enough of a danger to society that they need to be kept out of it. (Of course some particular jails might be cruel). (I'm using the British English meaning of "jail"; I'm aware that in US English the term has a technical meaning)
- leetcrew 8y ago> If prison conditions are bad enough for someone to even consider that, that's a damning indictment of the prison system. really? a cage is still a cage, no matter how nice. i'm not thirty yet; to live out more than half of my life in confinement, with no hope of release, sounds like a fate worse than death to me. if i were near the end of my life already and had a family, it might be a different calculation.