Man suspected in deaths of five children

[Yoyodyne ArtWorks]

RgrF wrote:
With mandated appeals and all it costs some 5 to 10 times more to execute someone than it does to lock them away for life, not to mention that life spent in todays penal system is a death dragged out over decades.

He'll be a dead man soon after being released into the prison's general population anyway.

And that's OK?

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Racer X]

Speedy wrote:
[quote=WHiiP]
How so, RgrF?

Plant him. IF he did it.

He did it. No doubt about it. Still much cheaper to give him a life sentence.
It shouldn't be. He admitted 5 counts of murder. What's the problem.

[RgrF]

Yoyodyne ArtWorks wrote:
[quote=RgrF]
With mandated appeals and all it costs some 5 to 10 times more to execute someone than it does to lock them away for life, not to mention that life spent in todays penal system is a death dragged out over decades.

He'll be a dead man soon after being released into the prison's general population anyway.

And that's OK?

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's not OK and I didn't say it was. It is, however, the reality of our prison system where child molesters and child killers are fed to street 'justice". Happens daily throughout this country.

[rjmacs]

Racer X wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
[quote=WHiiP]
How so, RgrF?

Plant him. IF he did it.

He did it. No doubt about it. Still much cheaper to give him a life sentence.
It shouldn't be. He admitted 5 counts of murder. What's the problem.
The "problem" is due process, apparently. Something that seems ridiculous and unnecessary until it's you on the other side of the bailiff.

[rjmacs]

RgrF wrote:
[quote=Yoyodyne ArtWorks]
[quote=RgrF]
With mandated appeals and all it costs some 5 to 10 times more to execute someone than it does to lock them away for life, not to mention that life spent in todays penal system is a death dragged out over decades.

He'll be a dead man soon after being released into the prison's general population anyway.

And that's OK?

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's not OK and I didn't say it was. It is, however, the reality of our prison system where child molesters and child killers are fed to street 'justice". Happens daily throughout this country.
And that is a problem. Another problem is mass incarceration for non-violent offenses, which results in non-violent petty criminals being forced to learn to be violent inmates or suffer assault, rape, or death.

[Racer X]

rjmacs wrote:
[quote=Racer X]
[quote=Speedy]
[quote=WHiiP]
How so, RgrF?

Plant him. IF he did it.

He did it. No doubt about it. Still much cheaper to give him a life sentence.
It shouldn't be. He admitted 5 counts of murder. What's the problem.
The "problem" is due process, apparently. Something that seems ridiculous and unnecessary until it's you on the other side of the bailiff.
Well, when you go to the authorities and say I did it, I'll show you where they are. You kinda short circuit the whole process.