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If you had to choose, would you prefer life in prison without parole or the death sentence?

Asked by LadyMarissa (16089points) July 20th, 2018

I was just reading an article on the BBC of a man from Ohio who killed 2 people back in 1997. He had received the death sentence at the time. He doesn’t deny killing them; but insists that there was extunating circumstances. In February 2018 when it was time for him to be executed, his lawyer requested a stay of execution on the grounds that he had been brutally abused as a child in the foster care system & that this info was not allowed to be told in front of the jury. The Governor of Ohio commuted his sentence to life in prison without parole. That got me to thinking. I believe that I would prefer to be executed rather than spend the rest of my life in prison. The thought of being locked in a small cell almost drives me insane; so, I don’t think that I would prefer life in prison over desth. How about you???

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