Should life in prison really mean life in prison?

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

Well I know in Texas, you are more likely to get the death penalty, but if the public at large got it into their heads that life didn't mean life, a lot more people would be facing the death penalty. Because faced with the reality that the guy you convicted of murder might be out on the streets in 10 years, you might decide, screw it, he doesn't deserve the needle, but I will be damned if I want him moving next door either.....

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That is why they do NOT tell them.......which is a way of lying to them....

okay the real choice is six years actual time in the pen, or death for this really nasty murder (which, by law, it must be, before they can consider the death penalty), so you know what the choice would be for most.....

OTOH, if he is locked away for life, the choice is much harder, but little do they know....

My suspicion is that many jurors have figured it out, so that is why they give the needle.....

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

Well I know in Texas, you are more likely to get the death penalty, but if the public at large got it into their heads that life didn't mean life, a lot more people would be facing the death penalty. Because faced with the reality that the guy you convicted of murder might be out on the streets in 10 years, you might decide, screw it, he doesn't deserve the needle, but I will be damned if I want him moving next door either.....

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Mark, did you read about the perp here who boldly chose to be executed by firing squal.
The judge said- OK.
Well- suddenly the perp did not want to die, much less be shot to death, so he appealed.
To the credit of that legal system, and I cannot remember which state, the judge said, in a very shot time, screw you, and the sob was shot to death.