[neilwilson]

Moreover life imprisonment is far more of a punishment. The individual has to get up every day and contemplate what they have done - with no way to end that other than the passage of time and the hope of commutation.

If you're from a part of the world where the death penalty was consigned to history decades ago, it's quite astonishing that a supposedly civilised nation would defend it.

The USA has some odd hangups.

[unyttigfjelltol]

This comment is internally inconsistent-- favoring a more barbaric penalty of life incarceration does not mean a nation has a higher morality.