死刑存廢根本不是議題,如何隔離暴力才是
死刑不是極刑
很多受病痛折磨的人求死不能,可見死刑不是極刑,很多遠古時代不人道的刑求,讓嫌疑人求死不得,可見死刑不是極刑。
有人認為無法假釋、服苦役的「無期徒刑」,沒有明天的刑罰比死刑更難熬,未來有真正的無期苦刑,如何因應這類死囚暴動、求死的心態,也是一種挑戰。
如果受害者家屬對殺人嫌犯的恨,恨之欲其死,其實太便宜了「罪有應得」的死囚。
害怕報復、冤獄,是難以迴避的問題
有些人怕死囚假釋後報仇,尤其有些受刑人真的是冤獄,更擔心無故受冤獄的恨,可能會讓假釋死囚尋求難以想像的報復,致使造成冤獄的執法者和受害家屬更希望死囚伏法,即使真正的殺人犯仍然逍遙法外。
很多電影都寫冤獄,檢警、法官、陪審團只求讓社會找到紓解仇恨、紓解害怕的出口,速審速決,無視死囚拼命喊冤。
希望死囚盡快伏法的,恐怕是那些屈打成招、口無遮攔的加害者。
尤有甚者,刑罰不但加之死囚,社會壓力更判死囚家屬死刑,認為家屬不可能不知情、縱容,進而恨之欲其死,即使死囚罪有應得,無辜家屬何罪之有,恨之欲其死,多少也是來自擔心死囚家屬會報復,即使明知死囚可能被冤枉,還是希望抄家滅族。
如果死囚真的冤枉,到底誰最希望死囚伏法,誰最希望抄家滅族。
死刑存廢根本不是議題,如何隔離暴力才是。死囚是否該假釋、如何隔離所有暴力犯、暴力行為,才是應該討論的議題。
很多未來科幻片,處理沒有死刑的未來,處理的方式都非常粗糙,沒有深入思考、只有暴力隔離,卻也點出未來的方向。
電影 Escape from N.Y.、The One。
Escape from NY.
The film, set in the near-future world of 1997, concerns a crime-ridden United States, which has converted Manhattan Island in New York Cityinto the country's sole maximum security prison. Air Force One is hijacked by anti-government insurgents who deliberately crash it into the walled borough. Former Special Forces and current federal prisoner Snake Plissken (Russell)[4]is given just 24 hours to go in and rescue the President of the United States, after which, if successful, he will be pardoned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York
The One
Gabriel Yulaw, once an agent of the MultiVerse Authority (MVA) which polices interdimensional travel, seeks to hunt down all variations of himself in alternate universes. By killing 124 versions of his other selves and absorbing their life energies, Yulaw believes that he will become a superpowered-godlike being called "The One".
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Meanwhile, Yulaw, now on the stygian penal colony in the Hades Universe, declares that he will still become the One and then proceeds to battle several prison inmates at once. Finally, the camera then pulls back to show an army of other prison inmates taking on Yulaw on top of a ziggurat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_(2001_film)