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http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/charles-manson-deathbed/
The end could be near for Charles Manson.
The legendary mass murderer is on his death bed at a Bakersfield, Ca. hospital, according to reports.
[...] Manson, 83, has spent much of the past year dealing with the aftermath of internal bleeding from a lesion on his intestines.
Insiders say he was admitted three days ago and "it's not going to get any better for him."
See also: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/charles-manson-grave-condition-california-hospital-article-1.3635813
http://kron4.com/2017/11/15/report-cult-leader-charles-manson-hospitalized-in-bakersfield/
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @02:34PM (4 children)
The death penalty results in innocents being killed, which is enough reason for me to oppose it. I also don't think it's justifiable to execute someone after they've already been captured and the threat has been neutralized. Any actions other people take are their own problems.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @04:32PM (3 children)
Because there are no murders or violence inside prisons. And nobody ever escapes. And nobody is ever released in error. And no criminal is ever capable of running a criminal enterprise from behind bars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:37PM
Ah yes, the old FUD campaign. There is a limited amount we can do before those measures start biting us in the ass. Do you want a totalitarian police state? Cause that is exactly how you get one. Well, more than we already have, which is pretty terrifying given how bad off we are now in the US.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:38PM (1 child)
Stop. There are ways to detain them even further. Don't be an idiot. Do you honestly believe that I didn't consider all of your flimsy, pathetic objections? One of them was even in a post above (violence in prison).
So we should kill people because bad things might happen at some unspecified point in the future. Great.
And of course, innocents are never given the death penalty. To me, that alone is enough of a reason to never do the death penalty, regardless of literally anything else. If you don't agree, our values are simply irreconcilable. I would rather risk all of that than give someone the death penalty, because I'm not an authoritarian piece of trash. The government should have no such power.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:44PM
And while you can't reverse either the death penalty or the time someone spent in prison, it is at least possible for someone who spent time in prison but then was let out after being found innocent to live some sort of a life. I've heard all the arguments.