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Title: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: jackofspades on June 02, 2013, 10:42 pm
Lets say you had the choice.

Life behind bars with no possibility of parole/appeal anything like that.

I personally think id chose death.

Hopefully none of us will ever be facing the former but im sure theres pros and cons to both.
What do ya guys think.
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: Jack N Hoff on June 02, 2013, 11:30 pm
Just kill me.  Prison is not life.
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: Boostedh on June 02, 2013, 11:46 pm
Death.  Its like being a dog tied up outside.  There's no purpose but to waist air at that point. 
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: QuarterBaked on June 03, 2013, 10:07 am
In reality, I'd go for death.
But in my mind, I would go for life, spend 5 years planning an escape and then disappear forever! And then, if they caught me again, I would go for death...
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: SelfSovereignty on June 03, 2013, 10:19 am
Death, I suppose, but only because it would be so difficult to have to kill myself when I'd had enough.  In the U.S. capital punishment is not the most pleasant way to go out... though neither is hanging by a cheap shoe lace, really.
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: kmfkewm on June 03, 2013, 10:48 am
I would go with life and then spend my time plotting ways to escape so that I could strap on a suicide vest and run into the DEA headquarters and give them death sentences.
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: ozzietrader on June 03, 2013, 11:00 am
I don't know. It would depend if I could spend most of my time in my cell, and what I could do in there. Could I read books? Was the food ok? Could I get extra food? Could I have a TV or Playstation?

It would also depend on how much I was exposed to other prisoners and how paranoid I was about being attacked / raped/ shanked. Also depend on how the guards were...

With a bit to keep me occupied and some half decent food, I could be convinced to stay alive in the cell.

But if all the prisoners were trying to attack me, I couldn't stay in my cell, I was celled up with others etc.. I'd prefer death
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: StExo on June 03, 2013, 01:47 pm
Life and then just keeping trying to escape :)
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: BeepBeepImAJeep on June 03, 2013, 02:49 pm
It really depends on which country the sentence is to be served in. Some countries like Norway have hotel-standard prisons with libraries etc, but if I would have to serve in some shit prison in Congo or something I'd probably want to kill myself.
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: Jack N Hoff on June 03, 2013, 04:25 pm
Lol @ the people talking about trying to escape.  You would regret that choice and be able to ecscape.  After your first attempt you would be on close security level as long as they don't shoot you.
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: Rastaman Vibration on June 03, 2013, 05:15 pm
That's a tough one. Getting strapped to the gurney while they pump you full of sodium pentathol seems like a really undignified way to die. i think I would choose life, only because waiting around on death row for your execution seems so much worse than actually being dead. But then again, I've only spent all of 1 day in jail, so I wouldn't really know about how bad life in prison could be.
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: PurpleBalloons54 on June 03, 2013, 05:36 pm
This all really depends on the amount of raping and molesting that I would have to experience.

I'm happy to sit in my mind thinking and creating ideas.  Too happy really, ha!  Need to act more....
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: SealTeam6 on June 03, 2013, 06:23 pm
Life without parole.  You can't lock up the mind, it is always free!  I remember a quote from Malcolm X about his time in prison.  He said he was more free than he had ever been while incarcerated, because he did nothing but read and study!
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: Work3thic on June 03, 2013, 06:49 pm
This all really depends on the amount of raping and molesting that I would have to experience.

I'm happy to sit in my mind thinking and creating ideas.  Too happy really, ha!  Need to act more....

Pretty much this.  If I would be relatively safe while in prison, I'd go for the life without parole.  Otherwise, fuck it, I wouldn't want to spend the majority of my life in a prison where I had to watch my back every single second.
Title: Re: Life w/o parole vs death
Post by: The Missus on June 05, 2013, 03:47 am
Unless I can pull a Shawshank Redemption...I'd rather die.