Sorry, but I don't believe in life without parole. If a person is that dangerous, he/she is too dangerous to lock up, with all the danger of escape and further murders. When a person has been convicted of murder, and there's reason to think that further murders might be commited if that person were set free, I think it's criminal for a judge and/or jury to fail to use the death penalty. If that person escapes, what do they say to the surviving relatives of victims, "Oops, sorry." I think there should be a law that says if they simply put that person in jail for life, and he/she kills someone after that, the judge and jury members that reccomended incarceration over death should have to stand trial as accessories before the fact.
To those that say, "Killing a murderer doesn't teach him anything.", I would simply say that the execution isn't being done to teach anybody anything, but rather to prevent more murders. And locking someone away 'forever' simply isn't foolproof. On the other hand, there has never been an instance of anyone commiting additional murders after being executed.
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Jerry
Little Rock, AR
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