It seems to me that a case could be made that it is a more cruel punishment to house the " dead men walking " for so long, getting them used to a routine, in some cases educating them, allowing them to marry and then one day killing them.Reynolds had been sent to death row only 30 days ago for the rape and murder of a pregnant woman. Messick said the average stay on death row is 17-and-a-half years before execution.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … h-row.html
And like most problems involving the government bags of tax money is poised to be thrown at a new state of the art facility, but wait...of course the budget was off by 80%.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me … 7074.storySACRAMENTO -- Ground has not yet been broken on a new death row proposed at San Quentin State Prison, but the projected cost of the project has soared by nearly 80% for a compound that could be full only three years after it opens, according to a critical audit released Tuesday. "I think this report is a bombshell," said Assemblyman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), who represents the area and requested the audit. "We have known for some time" that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation "lowballed the numbers on this project.
" . . . They simply want to build a massive monolith to house all our condemned inmates on the most expensive piece of real estate in Northern California," he said.
They have to low ball the numbers. Because if the people understood all the levels of corruption and the real cost of state projects they would never get approved. How many prison guards will be hired with pensions equal to 90% of their before-retired pay?
The numbers incarcerated in the U.S. is sickening. Drugs should be decriminalized to a large extend and the only amnesty being discussed should be an amnesty program for the million or so in prison for minor crimes and drug dealing.
But as for the killers and child molesters why the fuck build a new building?
Kill them all. Kill them now.
