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The argument is sometimes made on this forum by those of us that are against the death penalty that those of us that support the death penalty are engaging in crass, inhumane vindictiveness.
An interesting counterbalance to this particular argument comes from the surprising source of a long-term 'lifer', who claims that the majority of 'lifers' actually support the death penalty.
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2002/09/08/story510169528.asp
Not a scientific survey, granted, but could it be that those in life imprisonment without the possibility of parole find their situation to be a worse punishment than the death penalty?
If this is the case, is it not in fact, LESS vindictive to advocate the death penalty?
Meanwhile, here is one that will, hopefully, soon be put out of commission. Permanently.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/22/duncan.verdict.ap/?iref=hpmostpop
An interesting counterbalance to this particular argument comes from the surprising source of a long-term 'lifer', who claims that the majority of 'lifers' actually support the death penalty.
One long-term lifer, a woman in fact, told me once that she never met a lifer in her time in prison who didn't approve of capital punishment. Her response was overtly subjective, but she said it with such blackness that I have never forgotten it.
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2002/09/08/story510169528.asp
Not a scientific survey, granted, but could it be that those in life imprisonment without the possibility of parole find their situation to be a worse punishment than the death penalty?
If this is the case, is it not in fact, LESS vindictive to advocate the death penalty?
Meanwhile, here is one that will, hopefully, soon be put out of commission. Permanently.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/22/duncan.verdict.ap/?iref=hpmostpop