I don't get this...

Some people here would rather drive people insane from isolation and loneliness in a prison for the rest of their lives, paying millions of dollars to keep them in a place where they just go bonkers and from which they can never be freed than to do the humane thing and euthanize them, thus ending decades and scores of years of possible suffering that they would experience without any real hope of any kind?

:/ What are you guys, torturers? After a certain point, it becomes morally *better* to kill someone than to let them live. At the very least, in the case of life sentences, you should let people kill themselves if-ever and whenever they so desire.

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Also, to Duo -

There are nearly 50,000 deaths every year in the US from automobile accidents (most of them caused by another driver doing something seriously stupid), and yet we all still drive around in exactly the same way and still go the same speeds and travel for the same distances and lengths of time...

I seriously think that, logically speaking, convicting a very few innocent men surely makes up for the downsides to society that would come about if you decided to do serious damage to the punishment aspect of our legal system when you operate on the assumption that everyone who passes out of a courthouse guilty is actually a wrongfully-convicted man. :/

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