Rhode Island is one of the few remaining places in the U.S. where people can be punished with civil death. That means inmates serving life sentences without parole are declared legally dead and can lose constitutional rights. (hereandnow)
Rhode Island is one of the few U.S. states that has a civil death law, which declares inmates serving life in prison legally dead.
Most civil death laws in the U.S. have been struck down, but Rhode Island is one of the few places where people can be punished with civil death. Prisoners serving life without the possibility of parole can lose an assortment of rights like owning property and annulling marriage. Earlier this year, a bill to repeal the Rhode Island statue was introduced in the House Judiciary Committee.“Persons who are sentenced to the remainder of their natural lives in prison are there because they have been found by a jury of their peers to have committed the most serious possible crimes against society, in many cases offenses that have stripped another human being of his or her life,” he said. “The loss of property, and even the right to marry, is not unreasonable.
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