Hain

Despite the rage I feel for murders and rapists living in prison eating three hots and sleeping on a cot and getting better health care than my own family only because it would be cruel and unusual to let them suffer illness in prison... I don't support the death penalty. The system isn't perfect, and it is not equal. Men who can afford their own private justice seem to be able to do whatever they feel like doing. That does not make them any less guilty or any less deserving of the punishment fit for them... What we call punishments are more like consequences of actions. The death penalty is a finality---if it cannot be distributed evenly, then it shouldn't be distributed at all, because we can't make up for that punishment.

Even if guilt was 100% possible, I still would not let be them executed: make them work. Somehow scrounge some sort of usefulness out of them for society.

Also, something has to be done about that health care system. My father, whom worked 16 hours a day at the same job on a fixed salary for 25 years, has a bum ticker. He has never done a damn thing wrong in his life... and he can't get that kind of health care prisoners receive? Shit, prisoners can receive state-paid hormone treatments... but my pops can't see a decent doctor for his heart? /rant

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