"Life imprisonment" is an extremely general term. All it entails is that someone is in government custody for some maximum length of time allowed by law. This is why I added "in the worst sense of the term". But maybe, judging by the rest of your post, what you really mean is you just really want the worst punishment possible and people in this thread have yet to explain why this must be the case beyond some petty desire for revenge/"justice" and/or brazen blanket assumptions about how people handle tragedy.
man, i used to have some respect for you but you're killing what i had left...
is there an alternative to killing people or locking them up in jail for the rest of their lives? that's basically what your post seemed to imply and what I asked. Judging by the rest of my post, i'm fucking curious...
the people who are affected by a murder, the family and friends, are the actual victims, so it'd be nice to hear from them about how it'd make them feel. If i can make bereaved people feel much better, then i'm willing to go to some lengths, like say killing a murderer.
capefeather said:
In that respect, quite frankly, your blanket statements are boring and show you haven't given any serious thought to any of the issues you bring up here.
blanket statement 1:murderers are evil
a very, very, very simple concept I didn't need to give any thought to. Anyone who believes ending someone else's life for some emotional or other kind of gain is acceptable, is not someone whose death would cause me to shed a tear. They're evil, and not necessarily solvable. (obviously only first-degree)
blanket statement 2: a victim's family should have a large say in the matter
well, duh. Most of these people's points revolve around how the victim's family -would- feel. But we could actually just ask them.
it might cause arguments within the family or feelings of causing that person's death, so I won't deny it could backfire. But it's not a suggestion without merit.
blanket statement 3: we need to solve mexico's problems
true, i haven't given that much thought to this, because it'd require a shit-ton of research and i'm not necessarily interested in doing it. But really, we know Mexico and most latin american countries have a shit ton of problems, like drug gangs, rampant poverty, corruption, general shittiness...what are the roots of these problems? let's find them and work actively to solve them. that seems like the policy u.s. should be actively taking
i have no personal stake in the matter one way or the other. i'm not a damn partisan. to me, better argument wins... and you guys are losing pretty hard right now. maybe go back to focusing on the economic aspects, as there seems to be some favorable data there. (studies showed that executions are expensive, but i couldn't manage to find a study that compared the expected cost of locking that prisoner up all his life.)