Death penalty seems more humane than life sentence

Lifestyles
Feb 25, 2011
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A recent letter to the editor, “Life in prison is harshest penalty,” Feb. 17, was right on the mark.

As someone who spent just six years on the other side of the fence, in a minimum/medium security setting and initially in a maximum-security reception prison, I can testify that prison life is a very harsh punishment. Life is monotonous, with a drab, dreary, unchanging routine, and too much time in which there is little to do.

Before my stint in prison, I was a staunch anti-death penalty person. After my few years, I find myself leaning more in favor of the death penalty, as it seems to me to be a most humane thing to do.

Matthew Caddy

Dayton

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