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Originally Posted by Zarathustra
Has anybody considered the fact that for a prisoner like this, prison life would be a living hell? He'd probably spend most of his life in solitary confinement and completely lose his mind. 23 hours a day in a little box with no human interaction.
Which is more of a punishment? Spending your life rotting away in a cell, or dying painlessly by means of lethal injection.
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I don't really buy that...
There are people in parts of the world whose daily lives are living hells compared to that of inmates in North American prisons, yet they struggle for survival. They endure suffering so that they can have those life moments where they are happy if even for a minute.
People with life sentences don't stay in little boxes for 23 hours a day. They get chores, counsiling, exercise, the chance at developing interpersonal relationships, books, educations... etc. It's still a life worth living for most people.
Don't get me wrong... it would suck to not have freedom and to face the hardships of prison life, but they would still have things to look forward to.