Commentary

If Liberals Ban Capital Punishment, Next They’ll Target Life Imprisonment

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, July 15 2010

Capital punishment’s righteous opponents often disingenuously offer the supposed “certainty” of life imprisonment without parole as a bogus alternative to execution. On the one hand, such activists decry the “cruelty” of execution. On their other hand, they contradict that purported humanism by assuring us that a life behind bars somehow constitutes more excruciating retribution than execution. In addition to undermining their professed humanist motive, that contention is facially absurd considering today’s plethora of amenities that America’s…

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