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Originally Posted by KnightOfSappho
I used to be pro DP because it cost more to keep a person in jail for life than to just get rid of them. It was pointed out to me that the myriad of appeals made execution much more expensive than keeping them in jail.
The other thing that makes me wonder is that it seems to me that keeping someone in jail for life is a much bigger punishment than putting them out of their misery.
I'm still conflicted.
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I was pro DP for years too for almost the same exact reasons. And also that thing about why should someone who took a life get to keep theirs. I have come to realize--like you--that I'd rather die than spend my life in a cage. I said it somewhere else (my memory fails me as to which thread now) that the DP is such a heated topic and yet I kind of see it as the easy way out for the truly guilty.
For the innocent though...are we in it for justice or revenge? Why do we rush to impose the DP?