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More Prisoners Should Be Executed To Reduce Prison Overcrowding
More prisoners should be executed to reduce prison overcrowding. It costs over $24,000 dollars a year to keep someone in prison and prisons are overcrowded and expensive to run, as only 1 in 8 crimes are actually solved, if all crimes were solved and everybody was convicted we actually need 7 TIMES more prisons than present. More prisoners should be executed to reduce prison overcrowding.
 espnsports  21 Apr 2008 04:02
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There should be no such thing as a life sentence. If someone commits a crime serious enough that we do not ever want them back on the street again then we should just get rid of them completely. Most gangs have high-ranking officers who are lifers and are calling the shots from prison. Get rid of these people. If we purge out the hardcore scum then we will have the capacity to try and reform those who commit lesser crimes instead of letting them loose because our prison space is filled with the un-reformable.
 
 beezbo  12 Aug 2009 17:57
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But if they execute a person they are helping the families get some kind of reconciliation and those families need that if they lose a family member to that person
 
 doom_kid12  22 Apr 2008 15:33
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 why would they give a choice the prison ers wouldn't want to be tested on..
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 22 Apr 2008 15:34
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I think that every prisoner in there that is there for murder or rape should definitely be up for the death penalty. No appeals or anything like that should be considered. They should quicken the time it takes to get rid of them also. They keep inmates on death row for way too long of a period. I would give them a month tops and be done with it. There is no reason we should have to pay for these idiots to live in confinement and work out and eat decent meals and watch cable.
 
 curious  29 Apr 2008 22:00
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The next time you get arrested, chump, you had be the first to volunteer and not another hypocritical coward.
 
 K9  22 Apr 2008 21:51
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For your information it is more costly for an execution than it is to house a prisoner. The terrible crimes that prisoners have done have ruined many lives of the victims family and loved ones and of course victims losing their lives but the fact is executing a convicted prisoner is murder. The statistics show that executions don't reduce the numbers of murders in those states. What execution does is cause more grief to families and friends of the prisoner. It opens up a horrible past for the friends and families of the victim all over again and even though many people think it is closure, I'm sure in many cases its not. Life without parole is the cruelest form of punishment that we can give these people. Some prisoners would even prefer execution compared to the realisation that they will never ever get out. That to me is substantial punishment. I have heard first hand what it is like on death row. It is all the horrors we could ever possibly imagine it is. Even worse. Its day to day just surviving in there. There is enough violence in this world. We don't need the law to kill as well. I can honestly say that after 15 or 20 years if I was notified to be invited to the execution of the man or woman who murdered a family member of mine, I would definitely not be attending. I would hate all that sadness and grief to revisit me.
 
 aussie_jen  22 Apr 2008 11:43
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The problem isn't the number of prisoners in the system, but the number entering it. Spend that $24,000 on education, vocational training and social services so we'll keep them out of prison.
 
 semimod  21 Apr 2008 22:20
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Give them a choice between being executed, and being tested on so that we don't have to use animals any more!
 
 im_trumpet  21 Apr 2008 13:00
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 lol why would they want to be tested on in my opinion i would rather die then get tested on
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 22 Apr 2008 15:35
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