Retentionists argue life imprisonment still risks future murders by parolees

Evidence

Aaron Taylor (2013) challenges the notion that imprisoned offenders can do no harm. Future governors, legislators and judges, he argues, might renege on lifetime sentences and release dangerous prisoners. Even in prison, convicts can kill; this also is possible if they escape. Parole boards, which preside over the conditional release of prisoners, change members periodically and may release prisoners whose parole previously was denied. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1900

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The tactic of denigrating the nonlethal alternative to justify lethal state action parallels the ‘sacrifice’ framing where the milder option is dismissed as inadequate — connects to the corruption-of-means pattern.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1900