I believe you are no longer fit to be with human society and a bullet is cheaper than feeding you.

It still costs much more to execute someone than to imprison the same person for life.

I'm oddly biased for somebody who really hasn't been a victim of, or close to a victim of, murder, rape or child molestation/endangerment/abuse.

I don't think so. Plenty of people on the other end of that continuum are against capital punishment.

And your infalibility has never been doubted by this hippie.

It still costs much more to execute someone than to imprison the same person for life.

Not under my system.

I mean...I was being sorta literal. No lethal injection, no gas chamber, no electrocution. A tiled room with a drain in the floor and a .45 bullet in the back of the head. Just like the KGB used to do.

I'm a monster. And I want to make it very clear that I am in no way attempting to justify this position as superior to others or even morally or ethically justifiable.

It's the way I feel about it, is all.

I mean...I was being sorta literal. No lethal injection, no gas chamber, no electrocution. A tiled room with a drain in the floor and a .45 bullet in the back of the head. Just like the KGB used to do.

The vast majority of the cost of executing someone is the court costs, what with the death sentence carying a higher standard of court proceedings, the inevitable appeals (because the death sentence is not reversable) and what-not.

Not when the KGB did it.

The vast majority of the cost of executing someone is the court costs, what with the death sentence carying a higher standard of court proceedings, the inevitable appeals (because the death sentence is not reversable) and what-not.

Not when the KGB did it.

This.

In my system there would be *one* appeal and it would have to happen within one year of sentencing. If the appeal didn't work, or you missed the deadline...

Not when the KGB did it.

True.

I think we should develope some advanced form of computer artificial intelligence to decide who lives and who dies. That can suffice until the aliens arrive to take over.

When I was a kid I thought they should use Wonder Woman's lasso. They you'd know if the bad guys were telling the truth.

My brother is a CO in an asylum. His job is to watch monsters all day. One monster spent his childhood in a prison in south america. He was imprisoned with adult men. And so, he's a man made monster. And while I have compassion for the monster, I know that the monster can never be let out. The compassion for him says that he shouldn't be killed, despite things that would have had him put down in Texas by now. And so, the most compassion this young man has ever received has been by prison guards in a US asylum.

The boy who carjacked and kidnapped me was 17, poor, fatheress. I went to court all the time to make sure he went to jail. He got 5 years, and I found that fair. In the time he was out on bail, he ran away and got a girl pregnant. And I felt compassion, but wanted justice for what happened to me.

I found the court to be fair, and helpful to me. They made sure I was reimbursed for medical and missed work, they offered me counseling and protected me. The police were kind and helpful, as was ever judge, attorney, and victim's advocate.

What happened to the boy was fair, and his sentence was decided based on the many factors of the case.

I think what I'm trying to say is that I think a lot of problems with the justice system are one-size-fits-all sentences that don't take all the factors into account.

And mostly, I think the worst thing you can do to punish someone is to put them in a dark, damp place, and tell them they will never order a pizza, drive a car, ride a bike, see the ocean, drink a beer, go to a movie theatre, shower alone, pet a dog, or go to a baseball game ever a fucking gain. Removed from society. Banished. I'd rather be dead.

When the boy who hurt me was sentenced, I was allowed to read a victim's impact statement, and that's pretty much how it read. That for the next five years, I would order pizzas, go to the movies, meet friends for late night club gigs at midnight in Kenmore Square, have a beer and sing American Pie with the other drunks at closing time at the local pub...and not think of him at all.

He was in jail when I was at the Angel wrap party ogling Boreanaz. So there, FUCKO. Justice should be custom made to fit each individual. My justice was fucking Armani.

I think what I'm trying to say is that I think a lot of problems with the justice system are one-size-fits-all sentences that don't take all the factors into account.

I think this is true. Also, as I said to you in AIM, I'm troubled by the tendency to try juveniles as adults coupled with mandatory sentences.