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**Ifroham4** · 01-30-2006, 07:00 AM

Here's an opinion then:

While in theory I like the death penalty and have no moral or ethical opposition to it, I really think that life in prison with no chance for parole is a worse sentence.

And since so many people morally oppose the death penalty, it would make a lot of people happy. I'm not sure what the stats are - do more people support or oppose the death penalty? Surely even people who support capital punishment can understand the logic behind overturning it in favor of life sentences. (Although I must say that the conditions most inmates live in - cable TV, warm meals and a bed - bother me somewhat considering the number of people living in poverty or living on the streets. Prison is bad as is, don't misunderstand, I know that it's not a fun place to be, but I think it should be worse punishment than it is.)

Most of the people who ardently support liberal use of capital punishment do so because of moral/religious convictions ("an eye for an eye" is from the Bible, after all) and so they can't really hold up their argument because of a wonderful thing known as "separation of church and state".

01-30-2006, 07:00 AM	#3
Ifroham4 Join Date Apr 2007 Posts 5,196 Senior Member	Here's an opinion then: While in theory I like the death penalty and have no moral or ethical opposition to it, I really think that life in prison with no chance for parole is a worse sentence. And since so many people morally oppose the death penalty, it would make a lot of people happy. I'm not sure what the stats are - do more people support or oppose the death penalty? Surely even people who support capital punishment can understand the logic behind overturning it in favor of life sentences. (Although I must say that the conditions most inmates live in - cable TV, warm meals and a bed - bother me somewhat considering the number of people living in poverty or living on the streets. Prison is bad as is, don't misunderstand, I know that it's not a fun place to be, but I think it should be worse punishment than it is.) Most of the people who ardently support liberal use of capital punishment do so because of moral/religious convictions ("an eye for an eye" is from the Bible, after all) and so they can't really hold up their argument because of a wonderful thing known as "separation of church and state".
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