re: poll: life imprisonment or death?
from the tiny poll results (half for imprisonment (12), half for death (12) and 9 abstains), i would like to say that from a convicted person’s point of view - life imprisonment or death is equally undesirable. that is, imprisonment could be worst than death or vice versa.
what i would perhaps throw out is whether we might allow convicted prisoners to choose between life or death? that way, capital punishments need not be imposed on those that might be innocent or whatever, and the guilty might choose death, saving the effort and expenses to keep the person alive.