I have had a visceral opposition to the death penalty since I was a very small child

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10. I have never been a supporter of the death penalty

Even as a kid.

I never understood why we let the criminal off so easy with the death penalty. We can only kill them once even if they murdered multiple times. The death the government imposes is supposed to be swift and painless as possible. Which is not the same benefit the murderer provided for their victims.

I would prefer a life sentence without parole. After all appeals have been used the condemned should be put on an isolated island kind of like that movie Escape from New York but an island not a city. Like devils island but no guards on the island - just mines, sharks or some type of implant that makes them explode if they are outside the boundaries.

The people on that island will have to fend for themselves with just the clothes on their backs. They are also dead to the world meaning no contact with loved ones or lawyers, no mail no tv no nothing from the real world.

As I got older and learned more (like the cost, its not a deterrent, the racial disparity, the class disparity and the fact we have put innocent people to death) I became even more hardened in my belief against the death penalty.