Originally Posted by team_barlo

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?