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John in Plano wrote:

planosteve wrote:There is a better way.
Sentence them to life in prison. Give them a bottle that they keep in their cell that says on the label. "Drink this and you will go to sleep and never wake up in prison again." I think at some point most of them will use it and there will no killing involved.

Insane to lock up a bunch of killers and provide the ways and means to kill again.

Suicide can be accomplished with the clothing they already have.

planosteve wrote:There is a better way.
Sentence them to life in prison. Give them a bottle that they keep in their cell that says on the label. "Drink this and you will go to sleep and never wake up in prison again." I think at some point most of them will use it and there will no killing involved.

jellowrestling wrote:

Ric wrote:

jellowrestling wrote:I call "bogus". He wasn't given the death penalty.

whatever.

I guess that skews my entire point... right?

Fact is, its a good thing he wasn't as it turns out. Else we couldn't have this discussion.

I don't say that some don't deserve to die. I just don't think we are qualified to judge in that fashion.
There are too many factors having nothing to do with guilt or innocence that can send a person to an untimely end.

You can't use a non-death penalty case as an example of why we don't give the death penalty. I've been on a jury in a murder trial. The jury has different considerations when the death penalty is on the line.

In any case, what you are saying is, the only people in a society who have the authority to end another person's life are the criminals, no matter how heinous the crime or how absolutely lock-tight the evidence?