Michael Pugliese wrote:
> Ya, how many hundreds of (yes 99% scum I wouldn't want next door, lock 'em
> up for life, no possibility of parole) death row inmates are executed with
> great blood lust in Texas, California, Florida, etc
The main point about the death penalty is that it is the cutting edge (for propaganda and ideological purposes) of the war against crime (and in particular the "get tough on crime" part of that war). Any sentence that forbids parole is essentially as barbaric as (perhaps more barbaric than) the death penalty. Except in the most extraordinary cases, no prison sentence should run more than 10 years or less. This is the only way to foreclose the barbaric sentences given in the U.S. for trivial crime (or for "crime" that is crime only because the law treats it as that).
The "Life without Parole" sentence is in fact a disguised death sentence. Advocating it as an alternative to the death sentence is political cowardice.
Carrol
P.S. The usual use of "pc" -- "I know it is not pc, but" -- is the liberal equivalent of a sheet, hood and noose. The use or defence of the term is contemptible.See Gary MacLennan's article on PC in Monthly Review.