Re: [pf] The death penalty; not necessarily death.

Hi David,

Why would we need to drug such persons into oblivion? What's wrong with life
prison sentences? Despite what we hear about prison overcrowding, it seems
to me our jails must be in dire need of more customers if the courts feel it
necessary to jail elderly nuns for crossing a little white line at the
School of the Americas. http://www.8thdaycenter.org/031000.html
----- Original Message -----
From: David MacClement <davd@ihug.co.nz>
To: Positive Futures list <positive-futures@igc.topica.com>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:42 PM
Subject: [pf] The death penalty; not necessarily death.


· While discussing what to do with people who have no place in society,
rejected by it as too dangerous to be allowed freedom to do as other adults
do, I first suggested that the injection doesn't have to be lethal, it
could be one of those "dumbing-down" chemicals that psychiatrists can
prescribe. If accepted so far, then the question becomes "how do you make
the guy (could be a woman - there's one in the news this morning here in
NZ) keep on taking the drug?"

· An alternative would be to turn the too-dangerous-to-live person into a
vegetable with drugs and nutrients constantly injected (and wastes removed)
by tube. The bedsore problem might be dealt-with by having the bedclothes
lining the inside of a large tube which is constantly rotating, perhaps one
rotation in 24 hours. So one person only, would be needed to monitor scores
of these incarcerated bodies.
  My wife pointed out that, with suitable choice of chemicals, if the wrong
person was condemned to death, the drugged-to-a-coma person could be
revived again, after the months and years it took for the mistake to be
discovered.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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