[Atrocities]

Run a pole and see if people favor the death penalty.

I don't believe that we should use the DP lightly. I firmly believe that is should only be used in extreme measure and reserved for the most hanious of crimes. I also firmly believe that the appeals process for a DP conviction should be limited to no more than 60 months with the execution taking place no later than 61 months from sentencing.

Before a procesecuter can seek the DP, they must first obtain a conviction for the crime, and then meet solid irrefutable concreat cryteria for the death penalty. No more sending the wrong guy too the gallow's!

I also believe that once a suspect has been arrested that a national media gage order be issued preventing any news organization from discussing the case other than to say so and so has been arrested and will be tried. This will remove any chance for jury tampering and or byass. A person should ALWAYS be considered inocent until convicted. Far too many times has the media convicted a person in the court of public affairs just to discover that the person was inocent. Once a conviction / aquittal is obtained, then the media can cover the story all they want.

I think that the prospect of being convicted of a crime and sentenced to life in a solitary 8x10 cell with only 1 hour per week of yard time would go a lot futher than the fear of being put too death. All criminals do solitary confinment for the duration of their sentence. Sure the cost would go up, but lets face it, they are not there too be coddeled, they are there to be punished and punished they should be. Not beaten or humilated, but isolated and cut off from the rest of the prison population. A prison full of 8,000 prisoners who never see or talk to each other or any one else except a family visit once a month. That would do more for rehabilitation than any life sentence ever could.

No books, no TV, no radio, just the convict, a cot, and an 8x10 cell 365 days a year, year after year.