Would you rather have life in prison or the death penalty?

This is not about whether or not you believe the death penalty is right or wrong. This is about what you would personally prefer if you were put in a situation where you had to choose. Let's say you did something and are 100% guilty and you are given two options by the court.

The first option is life in a maximum security prison with no chance of parole. You will never really see the light of day again and you will be imprisoned with the worst of the worst. This is one of those prisons where the possibility of rape or being shanked is definitely there.

The second option is the death penalty, which is pretty self explanatory.

Which would you rather happen? Remember, you have zero chance at ever getting out.

Life in prison

Life in prison

Depends on the prison

A real shit hole, probably death

Which method do they use for the death penalty?

'I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees' 👆

I'd choose death. But technically I'm not a normal case, I'd require various pain medications for pain management and I'm doubting the prison would give me everything I needed.

Originally posted by Jesus McBurger
Which method do they use for the death penalty?

I don't know, lets assume it is painless though whatever it is.

I could handle prison as long as its not ....

American history x

Well like I said, it's one of those prisons where getting raped and shanked is a definite possibility. It's not guaranteed, but it's not something that is rare in where you're going.

Life in Prison choice depends on what my afterlife choices are.

hahahaha. i worked in a few prison for years. it's not as bad as people think. lifers are some of the easiest convicts to get along with because they have accepted their fate. many of them seem very happy.
death row sucks

Originally posted by Raisen
hahahaha. i worked in a few prison for years. it's not as bad as people think. lifers are some of the easiest convicts to get along with because they have accepted their fate. many of them seem very happy.
death row sucks

This disturbs me to be honest. For me, if a prisoner is happy then the prison has failed at it's task.

Prison's are supposed to rehabilitate, not make people worse people than they were going in.

Unfortunately the later is how most US prison's work.

I would rather have neither honestly.

unless you have worked or lived in a prison i don't think you can understand. when you have no possibility of getting out you only have two choices: accept where you are and make the best of it, or drift into depression and insanity. prisons can only rehabilitate if the inmate allows it. most of the people doing long sentences have bpd and can't really be treated. sociopaths that possess no empathy.

I would probably stay in Prison, not for some misguided love of life, but to actually redeem myself.

Who am I kidding, I ended up in that jail for political reasons, the world is unfair but I'll stick into prison to see my enemies grow weak and die 👆

Life in Prison, indefinitely.

But that might be due to my fear of death.

My EXPONENTIAL fear of death.

I would prefer the death sentence to life in an American prison.

Originally posted by Tzeentch
I would prefer the death sentence to life in an American prison.