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Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner
In which case locking someone up for life is the same, except for that person's death, murderer or not, is not on someone else's hands.
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No it isn't as evidenced by the 6 correctional officers killed while at work already this year. Not necessarily all the offenders were in prison for murder, but I know that some were.
Now had they been put to death....would or would not at least some of these correctional officers still be alive? If your answer is yes, then jailing them for life is not the same as putting them to death. Period.
Here is a case in fact, that almost BEGS for the death penalty, as the guy has confessed to everything.
http://jakester133.blogspot.com/2008...er-killed.html