>I don't agree that allowing someone to suffer and die for fifty years in a 6x6 room is "more civilized".
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>>I agree with you Alan. A lifetime imprisonment is a better (and more civilized) punishment than a death sentence IMO.
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>>>Well. It's about time Mississippi became civilised.

That the government gives itself an exemption that allows it to kill someone with impunity is uncivilised. Once it removes the perpetrator from society, that should be enough.