I personally believe that for crimes which warrant the death penalty, death is too good for the culprit. Death is an escape from hardship, not a punishment. Instead I suggest they make the prison sentence for “capital” crimes worse. To paraphrase Heinlein, a punishment needs to be cruel to be effective and should be unusual if society is actually a good one. Neither is true of the American prison industrial complex.
Inhumane prison conditions, disproportionate impact on the poor, the use of prison (slave) labor, long term impact on inmates, private prison profit motives, lack of focus on rehabilitation, and solitary confinement may possibly refute your last statement.
I personally believe that for crimes which warrant the death penalty, death is too good for the culprit. Death is an escape from hardship, not a punishment. Instead I suggest they make the prison sentence for “capital” crimes worse. To paraphrase Heinlein, a punishment needs to be cruel to be effective and should be unusual if society is actually a good one. Neither is true of the American prison industrial complex.
Inhumane prison conditions, disproportionate impact on the poor, the use of prison (slave) labor, long term impact on inmates, private prison profit motives, lack of focus on rehabilitation, and solitary confinement may possibly refute your last statement.
Maybe.