KateShroud wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
No, never. Not in the coziest prison cell. Solitary Confinement is probably worse than death. It's the fate we reserve for those who are to be denied the leniency of a state execution.
This brings up a question I've had for years. A defense lawyer is supposed to work FOR the defendant. So then why does the lawyer sometimes offer the defendant in a murder trial a life sentence without parole in exchange for a guilty plea? I'd plead not guilty and take the death penalty. I've also heard families begging the judge to show mercy and give the convicted murderer life in prison. How is this merciful? It makes no sense. It's like a doctor deciding it's merciful to amputate a broken leg instead of having the patient go through the painful healing and rehabilitation process. This is long-term, painful confinement to avoid short-term pain, and if you've seen inside prison shows, you'd know it's a terrible place to exist.
Even if you got the death penalty you would still be on death row, which is like solitary confinement, a long time. I would just take the life sentence since everything in the legal system takes forever anyway. Even those who wave their appeals stay on death row a while.