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Originally Posted by MikeSz
With respect, you've missed the point. Your (rather unproductively sarcastic) point is not an argument in favour of the death penalty, rather, its an argument against the way our prison system treats its inmates.
You can always make prison a genuinely harsh place - and that means that the judicial system needs to re-assert the notion that should you be convicted of a serious crime that warrants your removal from society, that also means you lose your rights as well - including human rights. The next question, which is just as murky is how far you take that.
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The judiciary aren't the one who put forward the proposals for the conditions inside prisons, so whilst I agree with what you are saying I think you are pointing your finger at the wrong person there. The judiciary can only send people to prison, they cant dictate how they are treated once they're in there.