Given the number of Miscarriages of Justice I'm fundamentally opposed to the death penalty. Don't feel a need to convert me. I just see the families of executed convicts (who later turned out to be innocent) and see as much cruelty as in the original crime.
In cases of callous murder (or even attempted murder), rape or child abuse, I'm an advocate of nasty smelly dark holes in the ground without chance of parole. No bleedin' heart 're-edjamacation' or 'reform'. No TV, no KFC, no Disney DVDs. Nasty, smelly, prison for life.
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"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve