This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

Lee Berman · 12 Apr 2012, 18:13 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:13:51 -0400
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires
Message-ID: <SNT123-W47BB8B14EBD80F8C1A4247CF3A0 at phx.gbl>

>David Stockhoff: What you are proposing is torture and is globally illegal.

Well the idea of supemax prisons with indefinite terms of solitary confinement
goes in and out of acceptance. At the end of the day the justification is safety
and security, not punishment. It is used not only to house those who are 
murderous within prisons, but also to house infamous prisoners who would be a
prime target for other prisoners seeking personal fame via a trophy killing (as
happened to Jeffrey Daumer).

It is a difficult moral question- which is more important, human life or the quality
of human life? I don't have the answer. I am in favor of allowing euthanasia by 
request, for prisoners.

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