[Lifetime]

Cool it people, let us not let tempers flare here. I believe that all can be forgiven, and no crime unpardonable, so long as forgiveness and pardon is earned. If a man who has forfeited 20 years of his life in jail to ponder upon what he has done, and decides to change, should he not be given as much opportunity as anyone else to live? Passion has no room in government because it gets in the way of good decency and common sense. What might be true to 250 might not hold true for anyone else, but in government all people are represented, and all people have say.
250, if you're not human when it comes to murderers and rapists, you forfeit your right to be treated as one, because if murderers and rapists weren't human for several moments when they commited those crimes, and are punished for it, then I should think you are no less deserving of the same fate you have prescribed.
You may be human, but for those moments in your life when you look at a murderer in the eye and tell him he doesnt have the right to live, you arent a person.