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CMV: The death penalty is more humane than life in prison

The more I think about it, the more I become convinced that death is a welcome respite over spending more than ten years in prison. It feels like a more humane thing to simply execute people than to throw them into this living hell where rehabilitation might as well be nonexistent. I think it might be worse for juvenile inmates— where there’s zero mental health help, no actual incentive to help anyone behind bars. Perhaps the merciful thing would be to kill them all. I suppose one can argue that prison is meant to be hellish in order to be an eternal punishment, but I honestly have lost faith in the legal system as a whole. This specifically applies to American prisons— I’m sure prisons elsewhere are more geared towards helping the mentally ill. But here they might as well just throw someone in a tiny cage and feed them crumbs of bread while laughing and it’d probably be more humane than the pitiful examples we have all over the US. 

Please change my mind, honestly. I feel like this is such an awful mindset, but I’d rather die than spend more than twenty years of my life in a place worse than death.

EDIT: Sooo, reading over the replies and admittedly maybe not being in the best mental state when posting this— I feel like my view was/is incredibly selfish, making a decision for other people. So I definitely agree with those of you who are saying that we should work to reform prisons— that’s absolutely the way to go. I still believe that people should be afforded a choice between prison or instant death after trial— but leave it to me to jump to an extreme.
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Nelson Mandela was sent to prison for 27 years.

Not only did he walk out a better person than he walk in, the world was better off because of him. If you killed him off, the world would have been a worse place.