Why do many people have more concern for people on Death Row than for the families of victims?
I think more people than ever are making up spurious assertions on YA and then inviting people to agree with them as if it was a given fact. Your question works on the premise that: 1. Concern for the well-being of prisoners amounts to lack of concern for families of victims of crime; 2. there is a finite amount to concern to go around and the criminals are getting too large a share. 3. Concern with prison welfare is the same as sympathy for the criminals. My view is the same as that of the ECHR: that death row is cruel and unusual punishment. It does not equate to any lack of sympathy for the victims of crime or any love of the prisoners on death row. Sorry not to leap to the well-worn cliches about ‘liberal do-gooders’ and actually give you a thoughtful, reasoned answer. A previous answer said that ‘people are idiots’. She wasn’t wrong: but maybe not for the reasons she thinks.
