Then why not just shoot them (and spare the money for food and housing)? (For the record, I'm strongly against death penalty).
I cannot believe it. I would fire immediately all and every prison employee which act as respectlessly and irresponsibly (action --> reaction).
There was now a 8 year long Democratic administration and I have to read such stories. Is this also the majority-Democratic-sentiment? Or were they helpless against the Republican dominated congress?
Just looked up statistics (wikipedia): 1 in 3 black males will go to prison in their lifetime (and then be treated in this way). I think of my friends: 1 in 3! Absurd (even worse than I thought), someone has to fix this!!
One day I was doing some grocery shopping and a some guy comes up and asks me how my relationship with Jesus was. I'm an atheist and said so and he began following me around the store trying out various talking points in an attempt to get me to attend the youth outreach concert/thing they were having that night.
At one point he asks "What if some one were to rape your daughter and then shoot himself, you wouldn't care that he wouldn't be punished?"
Think about that for a second. This was a youth pastor, a man who theoretically instructs the children of the United State on ethics and morality, who did not believe death was a sufficient punishment.
ETA: and lest anyone think I might be exaggerating his stance, I actually called him on that several times. "Well I mean: he's dead, how is that not punishment" I asked immediately. I think 4 times we pushed at the sides of that point before he moved onto some other argument. Which is to say he was willing to defend the idea that death wasn't punishment enough.
That's perhaps one of the best smokescreens that has been pulled on the American people in recent times. The president has very little say in domestic affairs. On the other hand, thanks to various congressional outcomes, he can use the nation's military might abroad with virtual impunity.
