Are we now in favor of the death penalty?

[Think. Again.]

24. I actually DO think a person facing life in prison should be given a suicide option.

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...our justice system is not meant to give society revenge, it's meant to punish in the hope of correcting people to be able to live among others when they get out, or, in worse case scenarios, to secure people who are hopelessly dangerous to others.

Allowing lifers to choose suicide serves that same purpose without making us all guilty of doing harm in return for the harm that was originally done.

I know, I'm a dreamer, our justice system doesn't work like that in reality, but it also doesn't work to protect us from the harms being commited by people like that insurance salesman who got himself killed.