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WIM: it IS law in the Netherlands. Why do you think it is untenable?
>> The regimen in Dutch jails (especially for those who are considered a
lethal
>> risk to fellow inmates or jailers) is such that murder [hardly] occurs in
>> jail.
>
>I think it is untenable in part because of the word "hardly". Which I
>believe means it "does on occasion occur". So the question remains. Why?
>Why, as a matter of law, institutionalize the premise that society
>values more highly the life of a convicted murderer, than the life[s] of
>the current and future victim[s]?
ERIN: I just want to take a guess but I doubt that those "hardly" cases have a
lot of convicted murderers killing tax evaders. If they do then can't a simple
separation seems feasible. So let's just suppose the risk was violent
criminal #1 killing violent criminal #2. Why is that the violent criminal #2
killed by violent criminal #1 becomes a loss of value to you when you are
proposing the death penalty for violent criminal #2 anyways.
I think that promoting the intellectual principal of "respect for life" is the
important part. The odds of losing the value of #2 is lower without a death
penalty.
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