Moreover life imprisonment is far more of a punishment. The individual has to get up every day and contemplate what they have done - with no way to end that oth

Moreover life imprisonment is far more of a punishment. The individual has to get up every day and contemplate what they have done - with no way to end that other than the passage of time and the hope of commutation. If you're from a part of the world where the death penalty was consigned to history decades ago, it's quite astonishing that a supposedly civilised nation would defend it. The USA has some odd hangups.