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[David Stockhoff]

What you are proposing is torture and is globally illegal. Such a 
person's situation is not as different from your own as you think, 
because if the state can torture him, it can torture you. And if it can 
torture you, it can torture me---and that is why I must object.

"Salvageable"! I'll just chalk that up to ignorance, because you're no 
more a psychologist than I am. I guess you missed the parodic quote 
provided by David Duffy. Do you prefer that 99% of convicted murderers 
of prisoners go more or less "salvagably" insane so that one does not go 
sane?

Or are you immune to satire as well as shame?

On 4/12/2012 1:22 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote (12-04-2012 17:37):
>> No. Extended solitary confinement is cruel and unusual and a 
>> violation of
>> international law. It creates vegetables.
>
> We're talking about someone who was already serving a life sentence 
> and then committed a brutal murder. Cry me a river. If such an 
> individual becomes a vegetable, tough luck. If it turns out they 
> hadn't committed the crimes after all, there's still a chance they're 
> salvageable.
>
>> What did we just discuss regarding lobotomies? It's the same thing.
>>
>>
>> On 4/12/2012 12:25 PM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
>>> Solitary confinement as punishment for the first murder perhaps?
>>>
>>> 2012/4/12 António Marques <entonio at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto: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.
>>>
>>
>>
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