Isolation cell for 20 years or death penalty which would you pick?

[undergroundpanther]

I would pick death.I have been in an isolation cell.As a mental patient and to this day I have not recovered from it. All of these things you may have heard about being used in prisons, the restraints, the aversive "therapy" and solitary confinement happen also in mental hospitals.



Solitary confinement is the absolute isolation of a human being or an animal in a cell alone --- solitary confinement has been proven to cause sensory deprivation --- and sensory deprivation causes serious psychological damages, resulting in a variety of mental disorders. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS HAVE GOTTEN LAWS PASSED TO BAN THIS CRUEL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS --- but the government is still allowed to inflict it on humans. Consider that!

http://www.webspawner.com/users/usprisontorture/



Helen Roberts is all too familiar with life in the control unit. For almost four years, Roberts, who asked that her real name not be used, was subjected to the relentless monotony and sensory deprivation of isolation in the Security Housing Unit at Valley State Prison for Women.

Her only human contact consisted of taking food trays through a slot in her door and listening to lewd comments and threats of sexual violence from male guards. Basic human needs, such as toilet paper and sanitary napkins, were doled out at the whim of guards; often they were withheld. She was denied regular medical treatment and visits with her family.

Initially confined to the unit for a nonviolent altercation with a guard, her SHU sentence was repeatedly extended.

Guards watched her while she showered, changed her clothes or used the toilet. She was subjected to humiliating strip searches in front of male guards and threatened with disciplinary actions if she complained.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/04/09/SC97335.DTL

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5579901
http://www.stopmaxvoices.blogspot.com/
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/3/9/12328/76371
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0351,gonnerman,49524,1.html

Death is preferable in my mind,to torture.And solitary confinement is torture.

When you find a person cannot be trusted with freedom what do you do? Torture them for thier own good or kill them to make them stop?
Which is more ethical?

I say the death penalty is better than life in a box if justice has been done fairly.