From: Ross A. Finlayson (raf@tiki-lounge.com)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 11:28:36 MST
John Clark wrote:
> Ross A. Finlayson <raf@tiki-lounge.com> Wrote:
>
> > If a killer is in solitary confinement and will never thus be able to kill again, then
> >even the most sociopathic criminal might not be killed
>
> Would you be willing to bet your life that a 20 year old murdering sociopath will not
> escape sometime in the next 40 years or so?
Yeah. I say that because he's not coming after me.
> Do you really think that for 40 years
> this fellow will really not have any contact to other human being, not even guards or
> other prisoners? If so is imprisonment really the humane alternative to execution?
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
No, I don't think that way. Regular communication is involved.
If someone is executed by the state, or hanged by a posse, or guillotined, then their lives have
been ended, quite permanently.
If a remorseless killer does so and says he did it because he thought he would not be killed,
then that kind of criminal should be executed.
Ross
-- Ross Andrew Finlayson Finlayson Consulting Ross at Tiki-Lounge: http://www.tiki-lounge.com/~raf/ Confucious says, "My name is Confucious."
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