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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
What I don't understand is that if intentionally taking someone's life is such an abhorrent crime why is intentionally taking someone's life a suitable punishment? Do they rape rapists or kidnap the children of kidnappers?
Social isolation, forced nudity, 24-hour lighting is psychological torture in that these things can have serious long-term psychological consequences—this is a degrading and dehumanizing treatment that I would call cruel and unusual punishment. No individual or state has the right to inflict these things on a human being any more than they have the right to waterboard them or inflict unrelenting physical pain or agony.
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I'm indifferent.
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i'm not saying that the punishment of each crime should mirror that crime, but with increasing severity, more time is taken from the criminal's life. i like the idea that if someone serving a long amount of time wishes to die before their sentence is up, then they should have the right to make that request for any sentences lasting longer than 10 years.
imagine how the survivors feel, they would probably want all the horrible things imaginable done to this criminal. naked with lights on 24/7 may cause psychological damage, i agree, but thats kind of the point of punishment: to make people suffer for what they did. cruel and unusual? how many people living in Antarctica live colder than most naked folk with sunlight on for 24 hours a day for 6 months at a time. how many of them are seriously psychologically damaged?