Matters of the Court, Life Sentence.

[d-ray657]

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