why the fuck would i want life without parole if it's just a bureaucratic irl equivalent of tranquility lane with decades of torment? do they preach it because they cant torture you once you're dead, and all of their "peer-reviewed" ethical abstractions get ripped away by the biological failsafe? i don't think the "social contract" holds any merit if there's literally nothing offered as compensation.
but sure an extra pack of ramen will keep one inmate off suicide watch, sure. and those abstractions fall apart anyway, if they think your biological urge to live overrides self-respect.
"hurr durrr it costs more to keep them on death row" maybe you shouldn't let greed corrupt literal methods to kill people? oh but a .308 to the head (less than a dollar) is inhumane... so true! i'll go take my ssris now, thanks.