John Allen Muhammad sentenced to death - Page 2

You people are touching a bit the issue of Malvo getting a life sentence instead of death penalty. First of all he's a child, so to say. Second, according to most, he would have been manipulated, and manipulating/brainwashing a teenager would have been relatively easy.

In other words he may not have even know what he was truly doing. If such is the case, my bit of knowledge of psichology tells me he can be rehabilitated.

There is another issue: A majority of countries in the world have abolished the death penalty. This is a growing trend right now. If it keeps on like that, the U.S. may end up easily the only developed nation with the death penalty. It will end up in the same list as most third world countries of regions as central africa and such. Superpower or not, like all countries the U.S. has to keep up with the rest of the world. Don't you agree?

You people talk about what I call the country club theory. That he would end up in something of a country club, which some prisons in the states are. I have always been apalled at that myself, and I believe that for such criminals they should not be in too good accomodations. Anyway, I haven't got much to whine, since standards of prisons here are way below those in the states. They have little air conditioning, and not nearly as much luxury among other things, and in most cases there are quite a few mice in the kitchen. It's true they ain't exactly medieval dungeons, but they ain't exactly club fed either.

And prisoners here tend to have some kind of sense of justice, people who have commited crimes of killing children, rape or against their parents, and other similar things usually don't last a second before another inmate has tried to kill them already.

If you wish, you can forgo the death penalty and send him over here for life sentence. I guarantee you, he is going to have a kick from it. That is, if he survives to have the kick.

What were the Moors Murders? I have never heard of that one.

That about the inmates waiting for the rapists and such... that's really interesting. You know, it is the kind of thing that could make an excellent subject of an anthropological investigation... If it wasn't that you would have to spend so much time near a prison to make it. I don't know, just find it curious how people who may have killed hundreds in gang fights and drug smuggling would have such a sense of what should not be done. Puts you to think the human side to them.

In prisons here, in all of them there are at least vocational courses. The kind of things you would find in a vocational school. Made with the idea that the inmates who get out find something decent to make a living, rather than in crime. But you have to behave very nicely to have it.

The only prisons you can say that are full of luxuries, are the juveniles and the federal one, which is crammed full of white collar felons.

Tulip: I don't have to say anything more, you said it completely. Here in PR there are college degrees, in the less infamous prisons, at least. But at least they all try to fill that principle, even if it's just a vocational school.

Rosie: I agree with you a lot. Many of those hardened criminals, you can often find them melting at the sight of a toddler and playing with him and spoiling him. And many of them have children of their own, so I guess when they receive an inmate for child molestation they think "that could have been my daughter".

She's 49 yrs old. I checked the profile