re: #158 HappyWarrior

I used to be the same way about the death penalty. But I began to realize, along with the many people who were later found innocent, that there was usually no way, short of serial killers who proudly show their work, to be sure there wasn’t a mistake along the way. So I began to support life without parole. If guilty, they just stay in jail. If evidence turns up later they are innocent, then we can let them go. That’s a better margin than killing someone and later finding out they were innocent, or not innocent, but there were mitigating factors.

Plus it ends the endless drama around appeals and the actual administration of the sentence itself and the endless search for a way to kill that isn’t cruel and unusual. There really isn’t a good way to kill a relatively young and healthy man.