01-31-2006, 08:39 PM
To those who claim that there is no evidence that the death penalty actually deters crime:
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Balkan/Dracula.html
Of course, this is an extreme example, but I believe it makes its point rather well. Also, please note that the text of the admendment prohibits cruel AND unusual punishment, not cruel OR unusual punishment. If that were the case, then that guy who raped that girl for 4 years starting when she was 7 wouldn't have gotten a mere 60 days. That is unusual punishment. But the second you think some hardcore criminal might possibly be not catered to in every imaginable way plausible, you get your knickers twisted up almost too tight to breathe.
Heaven forbid that prison resemble some kind of punishment! Heaven forbid that we expect our criminals to WANT to work for a living, since they get everything they could possibly want at the hands of the justice system. Ok, imagine that you're Billy the Kid Killer. After 8 years of serving your so-called "life-sentence", you get off for good behavior. Now, since you're out on the street with practically zero hireable skills, no means of getting a job (since businesses don't like hiring kid killers), and no X-Box/cable/XM radio/ warm hot meals, what do you do? You do what you're good at and go right back to your nice comfortable jail cell.
Thank you for your time in reading m little rant, but you have to admit that your stance is exceedingly ridiculous. The death penalty DOES deter crime. So does a harsh cell with nothing but the basics. You want to rehabilitate criminals? That's fine. Teach them how to do something useful. But don't give them frekking millions of ways to be distracted from why they're there. Make them want to rejoin society. Make them wish they hadn't done what they did. And fairly pay those who were wrongly accused. What happens if the state makes a mistake? "Oh, sorry Mr. Billy, but you didn't kill those kids after all. Oops. Sorry. Here, we'll let you out, but your record still says you were convicted, so nobody's going to trust you since you were suspicious enough to be put in jail for the last 8 years. Have a nice life."
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Balkan/Dracula.html
Of course, this is an extreme example, but I believe it makes its point rather well. Also, please note that the text of the admendment prohibits cruel AND unusual punishment, not cruel OR unusual punishment. If that were the case, then that guy who raped that girl for 4 years starting when she was 7 wouldn't have gotten a mere 60 days. That is unusual punishment. But the second you think some hardcore criminal might possibly be not catered to in every imaginable way plausible, you get your knickers twisted up almost too tight to breathe.
Heaven forbid that prison resemble some kind of punishment! Heaven forbid that we expect our criminals to WANT to work for a living, since they get everything they could possibly want at the hands of the justice system. Ok, imagine that you're Billy the Kid Killer. After 8 years of serving your so-called "life-sentence", you get off for good behavior. Now, since you're out on the street with practically zero hireable skills, no means of getting a job (since businesses don't like hiring kid killers), and no X-Box/cable/XM radio/ warm hot meals, what do you do? You do what you're good at and go right back to your nice comfortable jail cell.
Thank you for your time in reading m little rant, but you have to admit that your stance is exceedingly ridiculous. The death penalty DOES deter crime. So does a harsh cell with nothing but the basics. You want to rehabilitate criminals? That's fine. Teach them how to do something useful. But don't give them frekking millions of ways to be distracted from why they're there. Make them want to rejoin society. Make them wish they hadn't done what they did. And fairly pay those who were wrongly accused. What happens if the state makes a mistake? "Oh, sorry Mr. Billy, but you didn't kill those kids after all. Oops. Sorry. Here, we'll let you out, but your record still says you were convicted, so nobody's going to trust you since you were suspicious enough to be put in jail for the last 8 years. Have a nice life."
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