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Which is more cruel to the criminal? Which is more beneficial to society?
Being denied freedom is rather cruel. Dying may surmount it though. As for benefit to society, there's no difference between life without parole and the death penalty from an aggregate societal perspective. And the DP costs way more money to use, so it's cheaper to throw on in jail for life over state sponsored killings.