Originally posted by: ricarleite
Instead of applying the death penalty, why not have the person locked forever on some place, working as a slave planting something or producing something? Wouldn't that be more productive?
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
There's no doubt it has, which is why I only support the death penalty in cases where it's obvious beyond all doubt that the victim is guilty as sin. (IE the OJ Simpson case)
It's best to err on the side of caution than to excecute an innocent person.
There's no doubt it has, which is why I only support the death penalty in cases where it's obvious beyond all doubt that the victim is guilty as sin. (IE the OJ Simpson case)
It's best to err on the side of caution than to excecute an innocent person.
Instead of applying the death penalty, why not have the person locked forever on some place, working as a slave planting something or producing something? Wouldn't that be more productive?
That is an alternative I suggested. But quite honestly, I am not sure how well it would work, and it is very unlikely they would be able to support themselves fully. So very likely they would still be sucking up tax dollars. Even if you had them working a 8 hour work day, you can bet people are going to be crying out foul for making them preform slave labor, or at the very least might say that the prisoner should get his money sent to his own family or transfered into a private bank account rather than going to the prison system.
If we could lock them away in some obscure location where they could work in something like "sweat shops" producing cheap labor for companies to profit from, then this could be a very interesting alternative. But you know there will be constant protests against the use of prisoner labor, even if it is only reserved for extreme death penalty level cases.