Prison life is very dangerous. Male inmates are likely to get raped by other inmates. Female inmates are likely to get raped by male staff members. Some prison guards can be brutal and in some instances have used rape and set up deadly fights as a way to punish inmates. ... And prisoner rape costs a lot of money because of HIV, STD treatment, mental health services, and lawsuits made by victims. ...
The differences between the death penalty and life in prison are distinct but have different consequences. ... It's classified to be the most severe punishment for criminals that have committed the most severe crimes such as murder or rape. ... In 1993, criminals on parole committed 84,800 crimes, this included 13,200 murders, 12,900 rapes and 49,500 robberies.... Life in prison is imprisonment without parole, the convicted is never released even with good behavior. Criminals are sent to a state or federal prison where they stay locked up but can work in the prison for money and get an...
Each state which carries a death sentence has got their own requirements that a person must meet to decide whether they get life in prison, or the sentence of death. ... In Alabama in order to receive the death penalty you must murder during a kidnapping, robbery, rape, sodomy, burglary, sexual assault, or arson. ... In Arkansas you must kill someone with arson, kill a law enforcement officer on purpose, a teacher or school worker, kill a prison worker, a jail attendant, correctional worker, or someone who is in the military. ... Capital rape in Mississippi is defined as forcibl...
Capital punishment is most often saved for murder and sometimes arson, treason, burglary, and forcible rape of a 14 year old or under from a 18 year old or older, but it varies within each state. ... There are not that many people who want to be stuck in a small cell for the rest of their life where prison rape has become more common. ... On the average, an inmate in kept in prison 8 years before their death sentence is carried out.... There are criminals who have been sentenced for 50 years to life in prison but end up getting out years earlier for good behavior because the prisons are...
Those who are in favor of the death penalty usually are angered due to the fact of a family member, friend or acquaintance was either raped or killed. ... Kareen Jabbar Wilson was released from prison after completing three in half years. He was sentenced to two eight year prison term. ... This man was given a chance to rehabilitate in prison and he still continued to commit a violent murder. ... If the criminal is sentence to life in prison without parole, they will be left to languish away in prison for the rest of their life, they will have the opportunity to realize what they have done...
Punishments vary based on the seriousness of the offense; robbery can result to months in prison and murder can lead to the death of the convicted man. ... In 1852 Rhode Island eliminated capital punishment for everything except murder committed by a convict already sentenced to life in prison. ...
Or was the victim raped? ... Our society always says how our prisons are safe and secure. That may be true in some prisons now, but what happens when they have to hold murderers like that inmate. ... But anyway, if we need to bag the death penalty because of racism and such, then we sure can't have prisons! ... For the next few days, the woman was tortured and raped repeatedly and was almost killed in the end. ...
This means that someone can live after raping someone, committing treason, or even abusing kids. ... These seven said that the only crimes that minors should be sentences to death over are treason, mass murder, pre-meditated murder, and rape. ... It turns out that it is cheaper to pay for keeping these criminals in prison for life then it is to kill them. ... If they want the justice that they deserve they have to pay more then they would if they settled for life in prison. ...
There is no excuse - none - for a rape in prison to go unsolved and unpunished. ... So that means more prisons. ... And, most importantly, huge operating budgets for the prisons themselves. ... Just for prisons! ... And yes, they are all in favor of killing those convicted of murder, rape, and usually lots of other, less serious crimes as well. ...
Many people think that if they commit murder, they will just get life in prison. 1. 49% of defendants convicted of capital offenses had a jury return the death penalty (United 34). 2. ... DOJ, the average prison sentence served for the charge of murder is only 5 years and eleven months (Lowe 9). 1. In 1962, James Moore raped and strangled a 14-year-old girl named Pamela Moss. Moss's parents made the decision to spare him his life and give him life in prison. 2. ... The cost of implementing the DP is a lot less for taxpayers than the cost of life in pris...
You keep thinking about life in prison versus the death penalty. ... Abolitionists claim that people are just as safe when murderers are in prison, but some of them commit the exact same crime again when behind bars, or hire someone to kill someone who is not in prison. ... Life in prison doesn't ever seem to last either. ... A man named James Moore raped and strangled 14 year old Pamela Moss in 1962. He was found guilty and received life in prison without parole (deathpenaltyinfo.org). ...
People against the death penalty argue that if we as a society believe in lex talionis why don't we rape the rapists? Well raping the rapists would according to Carmical degrade another human being, and it has no redeeming value. It cannot stop them from raping again, but executing a murderer will stop them from murdering again. Carmical believes that sentencing a murderer to life in an air-conditioned, cable-equipped prison where inmates get three meals a day, and recreation time is a slap in the face of morality. ... There maybe a few changes necessary to the death penalty but no pe...
January 17, 1977, a man by the name of Gary Gilmore faced the firing squad at the Utah State prison. ... In 1989 with Texas prisons overflowing McDuff was released on unexpected counts of good citizenship. ... Over the next two years, 6 women were violently raped and killed. ...
The legal system does not steal from the thieves and rape the rapists. ... Thomas Silverstein was serving time in a federal prison for murder. While in prison he killed again. ... This time he killed two prison officers. ... Can we really keep all other people in the prison safe from him? ...
There are not that many people who want to be stuck in a small cell for the rest of their life where prison rape has become more common. ... On the average, an inmate is kept in prison for 8 years before their death sentence is carried out. ... There are criminals who have been sentenced for 50 years to life in prison but end up getting out years earlier for good behavior because the prisons are getting so crowded. ... Some criminals are too dangerous to even be put in prison because of the risk of them escaping. ... The death penalty will allow more room in prison so less dangerous ...
The common argument for capital punishment is that it saves tax dollars, it decreases prison overcrowding and provides equal justice. ... The monies generated by the work provided should solve the prison crowding issue by freeing up more funds to build and staff bigger prisons. ... The usual prison guards will watch over the workers. ... The murderers will work without pay and be kept in the prisons. ... Would society allow rape as the penalty for rape or the burning of arsonists" homes as the penalty for arson. ...
Prison should not be the final destination for our children. ... But when Sarah turned 13 years old, G.G. raped her. ... This was a man who raped her. ... She has been in prison for half of her life. ... This crime is subject to a sentence of life in prison. ...
Michael Ross whom has been convicted for the rape and murder of eight women in three different states faces the same fate as Timothy McVeigh. ... Michael Ross' reasons for committing his crimes are not political they are mental, he has been diagnosed with Sexual Sadism, which he believes is what prompted him to rape and murder women. ... Ross has always felt that there has always been something in his mind that made him commit these crimes, after entering prison he still felt that presence in his mind. ...
I believe that abortions are "absolutely necessary" in only two situations: the health of the mother and/or baby, and in a situation where the woman was raped. Surveys of women aborting their babies indicate that 3% of them are occurring due to the women's health, 3% of them are due to the unborn child's health, and 1% of them are occurring due to rape or incest. ... When you are killing a defenseless fetus, you are killing in cold blood, something that sends a person to prison for life. ...
David didn't report it to the police or anything, but the Police found out, and they toke Jerelmy to lifetime prison. ... David Cash could have been wrong because he didn't stop his friend from murdering little Shanice, even if he didn't know Jerelmy was going to rape and kill shanice, shouldn't he have had a little clue that Jerelmy was going to hurt or do something to her. ... A 7-year-old girl, being rape and murdered, the murderer is in jail, but would that bring back Shanice's life? ...
In addition, the Prince George's Prosecutor, Arthur Marshall, said in June 1974 that he was close to eliciting confessions for the Phantom slayings out of one or more convicts serving life terms in a District area prison. Simmons and Sellman were incarcerated in District area prisons, but Marshall's hope about a confession never materialized. Others believe that a group of men who were convicted around the same time as the Freeway murders for a series of kidnappings and rapes around the Anacostia area were behind the killings. ...
In a tearful turn of events for both the prosecution and the defense, Amanda Knox and her one-time boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were freed after spending almost four years in an Italian prison after an appeals court found them not guilty of committing the murder that originally put them in jail. ... With Knox released from prison, people are wondering who would have set up the mock robbery scene (CBS News). ... I did not rape. ...
" The case ending with Simmons being sentenced to life in prison, without parole, but no death penalty. ... The prison population is through the roof. In 2008, there were 2,418,352 prisoners in the American prison system. ... A violent crime could be anything from murder, rape, deadly assault and so on. If the death penalty was in place for a violent crime, the prison population would be down significantly, and the taxpayers would be significantly happier, thus less violent crimes in America. ...
Some as small as petty theft, others kidnapping, raping and even murdering. ... State and federal prisons are filling up quickly and the death penalty can free up space in these penitentiaries. ... On the other hand, it is far more inexpensive to just hurl the convict in to prison for life then to carry out a death sentence (drehle p.231). ... Criminals are threats to society but what harm can they do in a prison cell for the rest of their lives? Why should we kill them when they can juts bore themselves to death in prison? ...
Back in 1959, Steven Truscott, a young boy, aged fourteen, was convicted of murdering and raping a young girl and was set to hang. ... Truscott was sentenced to a lifetime in prison, but was eventually paroled. ... Ever since Truscott got out of prison he has maintained his innocence, but only now has he come out of hiding to share his story. ... More inmates, means more prisons, which means accelerated costs. ... According to this point, we should execute all criminals or offenders of the law and have no prisons! ...
