I find it really odd how many people abhor the death penalty and capital punishment as a whole, while also tolerating life in prison and solitary confinement. I don't view executing someone as worse than forcing them to spend their entire life living in a concrete cell, under the mercy of cruel guards, until they die. Especially if that process includes year long stints without seeing a single person.
Perhaps we should have neither? I understand that many people are uncomfortable with having someone who committed a heinous crime walking free, but there should be some way of giving back one's freedom and one's humanity after a while. Someone who committed a crime at 19 is a wholly different person at 50. Even if we can't give them total freedom, there should be an opportunity to live in nice conditions, to earn a proper income, to cook one's own food.
Perhaps we should have neither? I understand that many people are uncomfortable with having someone who committed a heinous crime walking free, but there should be some way of giving back one's freedom and one's humanity after a while. Someone who committed a crime at 19 is a wholly different person at 50. Even if we can't give them total freedom, there should be an opportunity to live in nice conditions, to earn a proper income, to cook one's own food.