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In reply to the discussion: I am OK with Tsarnaev getting life without parole in Supermax. [View all]cali
(114,904 posts)50. really? you think in those terms? why?
I said what I believe about supermax prisons. I insinuated nothing about you.
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Right; "Would you be content"? No, but I wouldn't blow up the 8 year old, either.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2013
#31
"People in these places go insane. They eat their own eyeballs and fingers...."
cliffordu
Apr 2013
#95
McCain didn't have a TV. There are TVs in the cells in the SuperMax cells. n/t
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
#23
Black & white TVs are in SuperMax cells. Recreational, religious, educational programs are aired n/t
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
#81
More info and a list of more folks that are at the Florence SuperMax on link below
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
#5
I really think the "rot in jail" sentiment is lamentable. I'd hope some SOME of the inmates
KittyWampus
Apr 2013
#16
I hope that some day he will be able to find rehabilitation and redemption and will be able to
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2013
#32
there was not one radical Islamic group in the world that wanted to be associated with this, - not
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2013
#102
Compared to those who support the death penalty, am I better, just as bad, or worse? (nt)
Nye Bevan
Apr 2013
#45
Because realistically, he will either be sentenced to death, or to life in Supermax.
Nye Bevan
Apr 2013
#53
Corporatism, authoritarianism, torture, choosing the coldest and most inhumane
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#35
Compared to those who support the death penalty, am I better, just as bad, or worse? (nt)
Nye Bevan
Apr 2013
#46
Well, you may consider it a "false choice", but realistically he will either get the death penalty,
Nye Bevan
Apr 2013
#51
But not as evil as strapping someone to a gurney and injecting them with poison, right?
Nye Bevan
Apr 2013
#60
Third Way framing. Always we are urged to embrace the lesser of evils.
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#70
What I wanna know is...how do people not go crazy in an establishment like this?
redStateBlueHeart
Apr 2013
#89
Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) successfully completed three independent study courses
Nye Bevan
Apr 2013
#90
Only one thing's for sure, after a few years in there that 19 yr old will wish he had chosen death
riderinthestorm
Apr 2013
#97