This might be off topic but an idea that can fit nonetheless.
This might not classify as torture but I believe that criminals that are held in prison for life without parole or are on death row can not and should not be considered a human being. Just wait before I am labeled.
One must have done something rather heinous to be incarcerated for life or to death: either serial rape, murder, etc. So you have taken away the rights of another human being--and I argue that it is only fitting that those rights should be forfeited from the convicted. And I know the Constitution, no cuel and unusual punishment. I don't believe in protecting the rights of someone that confesses to inhuman crimes, and shows no remorse for these acts.
Bam! Now all the prisoners that are on death row can be used for medical/scientific experiments or organ harvesting--whatever we need. I find it infuriating that my tax dollars are going to feed, to care, to clothe, to cater the lowest scum of the country. I dont know about you, but who has more right to live: Prisoner A who raped and killed 8 women without mercy, or Patient A, age 10, who needs a new kidney.
Think about that. It is required by the courts that a person cannot be executed if he or she is either mentally or physically unsound. So it is then our money, sports fans, that pays to nurse them back to health just so we can kill them. I say use them. And I would be willing to submit to such rules of life and end there of. If I were convicted of heinous acts, sentenced to death or life without parole, I'd rather have some part of me benefit someone else--slightly atone to the crimes I've committed.
I figure some good can be found in the usage of human degradation. Then cases of wrongful imprisonment come in.
Last edited by Hain; 01-25-2005 at 06:08 PM..
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