How does a state with no death penalty punish a life-sentenced murderer who commits another murder within prison? That has always been a strong argument for the death penalty. The U.S. Supreme Court, for a time, even held this situation out as a possible exception to its ban on mandatory death sentences.
Hawaii may have inadvertently stumbled on to an answer. You put your gangster thugs in a privately operated prison in a state that does have the death penalty. Jim Dooley has this story for the Hawaii Reporter.
Hawaii may have inadvertently stumbled on to an answer. You put your gangster thugs in a privately operated prison in a state that does have the death penalty. Jim Dooley has this story for the Hawaii Reporter.
This needs to be a mandatory death sentence.