Originally Posted by Galt

I have no moral objection to executing people who are guilty of heinous crimes. But personally, I think people convicted of crimes that would warrant capital punishment should be given a choice: They can choose to be executed, or they can choose to spend the rest of their lives in prison doing hard labor.

The anti-death penalty advocates will have scored a victory in the sense that criminals are no longer being put to death against their will. And we can use the prison labor to perform tasks at a much lower cost than hiring regular employees.