CardZeus wrote: - isn't 60 years in prison followed by death an equal (or worse?) punishment than 27 years followed by lethal injection?
CZ, I also hear where you are coming from. I would question the last statement however. After a period of time I would assume that they would learn to live with the handicap much the same as a 'normal' handicapped person does. At the point where they accept the life inprisonment, it no longer becomes punishment does it. It becomes a free ride that the taxpayers are forced to pay for.
Not saying capital punishment is the way to go. Have mixed feelings. Don't believe however, that abolishing it is the way to go either. I still feel that capital punishment has it's use. Murderers, Rapists, Child Molesters I have no sympathy with and it brings out the eye for an eye in me.
I do agree, however, that there have been too many miscarriages of justice as it were. Most of them were prior to the pretty good forensics that we have today. I could go on but..........