Dec 10, 2009 -- 9:15PM, mountain_man wrote:

Dec 10, 2009 -- 9:00PM, Callielou wrote:

You are wrong Mountainman. I'm a Christian and a right wing nut. I do not believe in execution!

I sincerely apologize.

I should  have qualified that with a "many" or "some." There are many good Christians that do not support capital punishment and would not ever support the mistreatment that others here have suggested. Those Christians are the ones that speak out against the death penalty and hold the vigils outside the institutions where the murder is taking place. I don't have to believe in their god to respect their position on this topic. We could use more people like them.

Thank you MOUNTAIN-MAN. Some of us still have common sense.

Dec 10, 2009 -- 8:37PM, Roodog wrote:

If an animal like a bear or a cat were to endanger  people by coming into  a neighborhood, the animal ought to be removed and placed in an isolated location. This some times does not work and the animal has to be euthanized. Before you go onto the speil about invading the Animal's habitat, Denver is not built in bear or cougar country, yet we have had these animals come into Denver and its adjacent suburbs. I have, in my own home, been serenaded at night by coyotes who were  in the gully across the street from my house.

When a person has been proved to have committed murder, and perhaps multiple murders the options are limited.

1. Lock him up in the general population endangering the other convicts.

2  Lock him in solitary confinement for the rest of his life which is unspeakably inhumane.

3. Euthanize the prisoner.

Roo, as much as we are disgusted (and rightly so) by the acts of capital murderers, these murderers are still human beings; our state and federal statutes recognize this, as do our state and federal constitutions.  These people are not animals, even though they may have behaved as animals.

In terms of your listed options, condemned prisoners in death penalty states are typically (if not always) segregated from the rest of a prison's population from the get-go, regardless of those prisoners' levels of dangerousness to other inmates.  They live on death row with (and only with) all other condemned inmates in whichever prison their states' executions are held.  The only time an inmate leaves the row alive to reside permanently in another part of the prison (or another prison) is when the inmate's death sentence is commuted to life or less.

Also, condemned prisoners are not necessarily any more or less a danger to other inmates than non-condemned prisoners. 

Additionally, states generally have either entire prisons tailored according to levels of dangerousness of the inmates (for instance, Pelican Bay in California -- for the most dangerous of the non-condemned inmates, lifers and less) or prisons segregated by area in which prisoners are incarcerated in particular areas according to their levels of dangerousness to other inmates and/or the dangerousness of the offenses of which they've been convicted.