Matters of the Court, Life Sentence.
 

The worst punishment that a person can recieve other then the death sentance is Life. But for those who have done multiple wrongs and in the end have had more then one life sentece is stupid at the least, the goverment should find a better way to deal with a person who has done something that requires them to judge this, because in reality say its a serial killer and he gets four life sentances
what will that do to him its the same as one and that makes it feel as if only one person got justice. shouldn't they come up with a more harsh to say the least punishment that could be distributed if ur not going to give a person the death penalty?

There are life sentences for which parole is possible and there are others that are for life with no possibility of parole. Someone who has committed multiple murders would likely be segregated from the main prison population - maybe alone or maybe with other dangerous offenders. As Pete has mentioned before, the value of liberty is so great that some people would rather die than face the prospect of never again having freedom.

I'll consider myself fortunate to have never been able to imagine what is in the mind of a serial killer, or simply why someone would take the life of another without a second consideration. Accordingly, I can't say what would deter someone like that from killing. I don't know whether someone with that mindset would hate being isolated from the rest of society as much as I would. For me, however, the thought of such an isolated life would be worse than death.

Regards,

D-Ray

Achilles,
Dude, that first sentence is about the longest I have ever seen!

On topic, now;

I posted something once before about a giant blender in the courtroom.......

Dave

Only if it is a green defendant. Note: it is an interactive video.

Regards,

D-Ray

There is no deterrence. It's like a gay person trying to lead a straight life.

What do you want to accomplish?

Do we, as a people, really want to punish someone or do we want to protect ourselves from any more harm at the hands of someone? I personally believe that the punishment will come from a higher authority than here on earth. At the same time I resent having to feed and house some of the a$$holes we have in prisons now for the rest of their lives. The death penalty smells a lot like murder. Just because it is allowed by law doesn't change the final outcome.

(:confused: Can you tell?)

At least we can tell that you have thought about it, and that you haven't given in to a knee jerk reaction one direction or another. To me, to punish someone who has taken a cold calculated decision to take the life of another with another cold calculated decision to take a life, puts society in the role of the murderer.

I have similar questions about involvement in war. We train young men and women how to take the lives of others, and then put them in a situation of kill or be killed. It seems sadly ironic to me that people who don't trust the government to administer a health insurance system are more than willing to trust the government to make life or death decisions in international conflicts and in criminal administration.

Regards,

D-Ray

Murder is the unlawful killing killing of another human without justification.

Since a state execution is by definition lawful, it is not murder.

Just my .02.

Pete

I didn't say the definitions of the two words were the same. I said the outcome was the same.