When will we finally become civilized and get rid of the atrocity that is the death penalty?

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9. Humane execution is civil

What is cruel is long and lifetime prison sentences. Prisons are hell on earth. Nobody comes out of them better off when they went in.

Mistakes are always going to be made. I'm not sure how much better off Carlos would be if he had been wrongfully in prison for 26 years and then exonerated.

The Chinese have it right, but for the wrong reasons. The Chinese do not generally believe in lengthy prison sentences because the product becomes a useless drain on society. The Chinese perspective is that they either release a productive worker or he is too damaged, or dangerous to keep alive.

We don't seem to care how much damage we do to individual felons. We don't dare that sex offenders can't find work. We really don't care how much they suffer. We think nothing of putting 6 year olds on sex offender registers, or putting 15 year old boys on there for have sex with his 15 year old girlfriend. We don't seem to care that we have 25% of the worlds prison population.