Child rapist stamped to death in prison cell
4th August 2010
Robert Coello, 44, who was serving life for four rapes and other offences, was reportedly found in a pool of blood after suffering severe head injuries.
Imagine my distress. ‘Well, we don’t have the death penalty any more, so we can’t execute you, but we can send you to prison instead, which will work out about the same.’ That’s modern life for you.
August 4th, 2010 at 20:31
The argument is that if thats what we want, then we should be honest about it and make it (part of) the sentence. At least that’s the argument in “You’re going to prison”, a book I just read.
August 5th, 2010 at 07:04
In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice. In practice there often is.
August 5th, 2010 at 08:36
We can’t execute you because that would be inhumane, but we can put you in a place where you’ll suffer a vicious and more painful death — because we liberals are so humane.