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And why do they have suicide watch on death row?

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Because part of the punishment is that you have no control over when you die. An inmate that commits suicide gets to die on his own terms.

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An Indiana law requiring voters to present a government ID at the polling place. I don't have a strong opinion on this one. On one hand, preventing voter fraud is important; on the other hand, I can definately see how this would disproportionally hurt the poor.

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Just allow their EBT card as a form of ID.

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I'm pretty sure the contention is that lethal injection is frequently botched in a way that makes it very painful to the condemned.

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how can LI be botched more often than hanging? Give them surgical anaesthesia before the lethal dose, boom, done

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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...amp;sc=I100322

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And why do they have suicide watch on death row?

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Because part of the punishment is that you have no control over when you die. An inmate that commits suicide gets to die on his own terms.

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So we spend money forcing inmates to live so we can spend more money to feed and house them so we can spend even more money to kill them, because of a twisted moral argument. And this is the role of a responsible government? Join the dark side, people - you'll do less harm that way...

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And why do they have suicide watch on death row?

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Because part of the punishment is that you have no control over when you die. An inmate that commits suicide gets to die on his own terms.

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That's retarded. The point isn't punishment, the point is to remove them from society. If they want to do it themselves, more power to them.

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And why do they have suicide watch on death row?

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Because part of the punishment is that you have no control over when you die. An inmate that commits suicide gets to die on his own terms.

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That's retarded. The point isn't punishment, the point is to remove them from society. If they want to do it themselves, more power to them.

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There are many points of it. Punishment is certainly one of them. Deterence (of them and others) is another.