On 01-30-98 Frank Masingill wrote to All... 
 FM>      My own personal opinion (FWIW) is that I am against the death 
 FM> penality 
 FM> for many reasons, not the least of which is that it requires society 
 FM> to act 
 FM> with finality in so many instances where we don't really know the 
 FM> guilt or 
 FM> innocence but my attitude is not likely to have much weight one way or 
 FM> the 
 FM> other in what happens in the various jurisdictions.  I doubt that 
 FM> anybody 
 FM> would argue that this final penalty is evenly enforced. 
That may be, but that does not prove that death is worse than life 
in prison Frank. FWIW, many killers are, in fact, mad. Terminally 
so, and that the mental condition is so painful that they will be 
irrational at a moment's notice, anytime, and may, as many have, 
kill someone *while serving life*. 
 
The psychological data suggests that not only does the murderer 
not value your life, he don't value his *either*.  This is why a 
large percentage of them are drug abuseers; many of them find the 
stupefacation to be the only release from existence they can find 
the will to use, although many do commit suicide as well. I would 
argue that capital punishment, were it carried out quickly, is a 
lot more like euthanasia than revenge. 
 
If you would be humane, at least you would recommend that lifers 
be given free use of stupifying drugs to ease the pain of a life 
they do not want to lead. 
 
As for the Ancients, at least they had a world seen as having some 
kind of place suitable for banishment. today, wherever you put the 
people like this, they threaten the well being of those who are 
already there. 
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