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[Antonin Scriabin]

Solitary confinement as punishment for the first murder perhaps?

2012/4/12 António Marques <entonio at gmail.com>

> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (12-04-2012 17:09):
>
>  I've stayed mostly out of this because I'm actually conflicted about
>> the death penalty.
>>
>> I'm against it at a gut level, but ...
>>
>> What do you do with someone who is in jail for life and commits a
>> brutal murder there? You can't exactly give him another life sentence.
>>
>
> There's solitary confinement.
>
>
>  2012/4/12 António Pedro Marques<entonio at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> That's all very well, Marc, but except in a very limited number of cases
>>> society can't be sure the person is really guilty, and laws aren't made
>>> for
>>> a very limited number of cases. For some, the issue may be the ethics of
>>> killing a murderer; for most, the issue is the ethics of killing a
>>> potential
>>> innocent just for the kicks of avenging blood with blood.
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