# Another botched execution

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-botched-execution/693930>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 24, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-botched-execution/693930 "2014-07-24T13:14:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-botched-execution/693930/121 "2014-07-30T16:18:43Z")

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> [@drewtwo99](#):
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> Yeah I sometimes wonder if life imprisonment is worse than the death penalty. I’ve often heard those opposed to the death penalty say “death is too good for this person. I want them to rot in jail for decades,” or something along those lines.
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> On a personal level, I’d rather experience life imprisonment rather than the death penalty if I got the choice. I figure a lot of others feel the same way.

Then how come people sentenced to life without parole aren’t trying for the death penalty? It _always_ goes the other way–people facing death want life without parole.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-botched-execution/693930/122 "2014-07-30T16:46:48Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> And I would disagree. _Any_ life, no matter how meager and joyless, is preferable to the eternal cessation of the self that death brings.

Not to everyone. There are a fair number of suicides in prison, even among those \*not \*facing life without parole.

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**Author:** ![common\_good](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-botched-execution/693930/123 "2014-08-21T00:19:54Z")

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> [@andros](#):
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> What **Bozuit** said. And while I agree that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and despise it, I confess to being pretty slow on the uptake sometimes…please explain the irony?  
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You know, “Land of the Free”, and all that stuff ? And no, I’m still not gay.

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