What's a worse punishment: Life in prison or lethal injection?

More suitable? Electric chair.

He's a vile, disgusting human being.

For your first answer, life in prison.

For your second answer, electric chair.

To your other question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201302...

I didn't call you a woman. I said you think like a woman, which is unusual for a man. There's a difference; get your facts straight. Besides, I also said that I "may be wrong" . . . another thing you (chose?) to leave out. Now I'm just trying to decide whether your defensiveness over my comment means something or not.

To your statement:

"There are many gun owners that have some form of mental disease anxiety, depression, or worse. There are many gun owners that are short tempered and live in stressful situations."

There you go again! Your emotional side is, once again, predominating over your reasonable side. Unfortunately, of course there are people who suffer from illnesses and depression, and many do, but what about the MAJORITY? Forget 'many' . . . focus on 'majority'. Just like I said before, just because one student in a school is allergic to peanut butter, doesn't mean you should ban ALL the student from bringing peanut-butter jelly sandwiches. Apparently you didn't catch that.

And to your other statement: "However the fact remains that the vast majority of suicides are done by a gun."

Yes, and that's a shame . . . but it's not the government's responsibility to protect the people from their own actions. And if a person is so desperate as to take their lives by gun, and if there were no guns available (courtesy of gun laws), you don't think they'll be desperate enough to take their lives by other means of suicide? Take for example . . . knife, perhaps? Or maybe we should make restrictions on knives, too, that the blade should not exceed three inches. Yah, that oughta help.

Also, since there are so many people that are mentally unstable, isn't our best bet to arm the law-abiding citizens? Yet I can already hear your argument . . .

"Yes, but they don't need Howitzers for home protection."

And of course . . . but all the government needs is that little wedge in the door--provided ignorantly and voluntarily by the people--so that they could shove all the rest of the gun-laws through. Once you give them permission to take away a certain type of gun, then you're basically giving them authority to be able to take away ALL firearms. And you don't think they would? Well think again . . . the government isn't on your side.

Between:

"To conquer a country, first disarm its citizens."

-Hitler

and

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are

neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed

that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of

humanity ... will respect less important and arbitrary ones ... Such

laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants,

they serve rather than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be

attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

-Thomas Jefferson

Like Jefferson said, how can you expect robbers, rapists, and murderers--people who completely disregard the laws of humanity--to respect a law saying they can't own a gun?

And so having said that, the question still remains:

. . . whom can you trust?

In my opinion, Life in prison. I'd rather be killed than spend life in prison.

Normally I'd make an argument that I support lethal injection over life just for financial reasons, but the people on death row stay there FOREVER. It's so rare that someone actually dies from the state.

3 square meals and a bed to sleep on all supported by tax payer dollars, or death? That's a tough one.... lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad, limbs tied to four wagons and torn apart. Pretty sure that life in prison would be a huge joke to someone demented enough to take the innocent life of another.

Personally for me It would be life in prison. That would be the ultimate worse. thing that you could bestow upon me.

but this shouldn't be the discussion when talking about things like death penalty and proper way to deal with hard criminals.

We should be asking what's best for SOCIETY. and that's to get rid of the rapist, murder, assailant...etc.

Life in prison is worse and costly.

Lethal injection is like an operation you never wake up from.

I believe that no one must kill any individual. The loss of life penalty shouldn't be the answer, and neither is torture. Yes, the character can have committed a heinous crime, however nobody deserves to have their existence taken away. "We kill folks who kill people to show persons that killing folks is flawed" Yeah, is smart...

These people of whom your referring to are the worst in society and they deserve lethal injection. To give them life is too good for them.

As long as life really does mean all of life, I'm OK with leaving that decision to the convicted criminal. It would be in the nature of euthanasia.

Eternity in a small room with no human contact sounds better than quick easy death for this pile of filth