Wes Mantooth

To me it comes down to the old If I was on life support...

I mean I'm sure these folks are happy to be out of what is probably hell on Earth and if I made it that far I would be too but my god, the quality of life in between would be virtually non existent and lets not forget that the odds of being found innocent after a conviction probably isn't very high. Sitting in a cell with nothing but the rest of my life to think about how I have no life is much worse to me then maybe being set free somewhere down the line.

Once out of prison, a couple of decades to kick around with my best years left behind in a prison cell, I don't know it sounds pretty bleak to me.

EDIT: Which kind of brings me back to my original question posted above. Why is life in prison seen as the modern, humane way to deal with criminals? It still seems rather cruel and unusual to me.

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