Everyone is capable of killing. Not everyone is capable of murder.

The law sees a difference between killing and murder.

I think it is unnecessarily cruel to jail a person for life. I believe that it violates the ammendment for "Cruel and unusual punishment." If you have already determined that this person cannot be ever paroled or let back into society, you are just putting them into an environment where they might kill again.

I said it before and I'll say it again: People are killed all the time in jail, especially by people who have already killed. By putting murderers in the same jail as non-murderers you are endangering the lives of people who may not deserve it.

Our jailing system is terribly flawed. We do not cure criminals, we allow them to fester. They do not get rehabilitated in jail, they learn how to commit new crimes. Jail is a horrible place where often you must do horrible things to survive.

While jail is not meant to be a wonderful place, the people coming out should not be as bad or worse than when they went in.

Serial murderers, serial rapists should get the death penalty, no questions asked. These people are sociopaths with no possibility of curing.

People who commit first degree murder, well though out planned murder, should get the death penalty. If they are so depraved as to plan the death of a murder, they do not have the right to live in my eyes.

For people who commit lesser types of murder or manslaughter, they should be rehabilitated in a mental institution. These are often crimes of passion, brought on by fits of rage. They should receive help. If they cannot be helped, we should have some system to use these people so that people who are not rehabilitated are not released back into society.

If the jailing system were better then criminals who truely got better, received the full purpose of their punishment could come back to society without that stigma above their head. Many good people did bad things for stupid reasons and they should not be bad people for their mistakes.

As for innocent people being convicted of crimes they did not commit: That is the fault of the prosecutor not the jailing system. Complain about over zealous prosecutors who manipulate evidence to say what they wish.