What is a harsher punishment?

[hussker]

I think there is another question that should be asked: Do we only want punishment? Is that all what prisons are for? What about rehabilitation? Isn't it possible?

POSSIBLE...yes
PROBABLE...NO For MANY MANY reasons.

[mookie2001]

hactually
Id rather die than serve life
but death is still "harsher"

[Vashner]

You know what used to on in the tower of London?

Some freaky stuff. Stuff to make pulp fiction look like bambi....

And really it looks defensive but it was mostly used for a political prision
in medieval times.

[Yonivore]

Okay I'll give you that one but reading the posts of alot of people in here, I saw alot of more demands for punishment than justice, which is what spurred me to make this poll.

Well, in that case, sentencing someone to death and then making them wait a lifetime, before you punch their ticket, seems pretty harsh. So, I guess I vote a combination of the two.

[Yonivore]

I think there is another question that should be asked: Do we only want punishment? Is that all what prisons are for? What about rehabilitation? Isn't it possible?

Stanley "Tookie" Williams was involved in 9 aggravated assaults, in prison, between his conviction and approximately 1992 when he seriously started to think about grooming his redemptive image for a potential commutation.

Should those 9 assault victims, even though they're criminals, have been subjected to the murderous character of Mr. Williams? They should have fried him within a year of conviction and, while waiting, kept him in solitary confinement, feeding him through a slot in the door.

[Yonivore]

**WARNING**REALITY**WARNING**VICTIMS**WARNING**

If you care to see of what "Tookie" was convicted, go here

**WARNING**REALITY**WARNING**VICTIMS**WARNING**

[Yonivore]

Had Tookie redeemed himself?

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/colu...15/179161.html

[Yonivore]

Let's hear from someone, a blogger, who lives in South Central Los Angeles

Baldilocks

[E20]

I still stand by my opnion

[jochhejaam]

Humans have strong survival instincts and most Death Row inmates allow the appeals process to take it's course unimpeded (some ask that the appeals that aren't necessitated by law be dropped) so I believe they prefer life in prison over execution.

There are millions of people around the world that have not committed crimes yet have it harder than our Death Row inmates. The majority of them aren't committing suicide so we could again come to the conclusion that life, even in it's harshest forms, is preferable to death.