Another nice exception
Idiots, especially Catholic idiots, like to justify their Satanic refusal to execute criminals with a nonsensical bit of standard verbiage: "Much better to serve life in prison. That's real punishment."

If you're talking about a professional criminal, this is absolutely wildly ferociously murderously suicidally wrong.

For vocational criminals, prison is vacation time, planning time, practice and rehearsal time. It's a chance to get in a lot of fighting and criminal activity in a protected situation where your mistakes won't lead to instant death.

But! Again, people are different. Another bit of standard verbiage about prison is absolutely wildly ferociously CORRECT: "Prison holds the bad, the mad and the sad."

Vocational criminals are the bad. Psychopaths who always do evil are the mad. Dumb or weak kids who fall into bad company and try to act like criminals are the sad.

For the sad, prison is SERIOUS punishment. It kills them, or it rapes them into zombie jelly, or it truly reforms them.

Here's a sad dude who will be SERIOUSLY punished in prison:

Let's see now, I need to look upward without the mask to check if there's a surveillance camera. Hi, mom! Then I need to pull up the mask to hide my face while I say This Is A Stickup.

The best part is the rock-steady barista. She has this sad dude measured from the start. Okay, there's your coffee and there's your cash. Will there be anything else?

Let's hope this perfect little video gets shown to all of Sad Dude's cellmates, especially the ones who are Bad vocational criminals. They will be highly impressed by his silk-smooth robbery skills, and by his unmatched ability to inspire fear and trembling in girls. Not.

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Update 2/21: The 'baby-face' criminal has done it again.

Spokane Police described the suspect from Mug Shots as a white male, 26-30 years old, and light brown/blonde hair. Authorities said this [new] suspect also had a baby face (pudgy but not fat), and was wearing a black and white hooded sweatshirt with dark gray pants.

“I think he’s an idiot,” said one employee.

Yes indeed. Dude is going to have SO MUCH FUN in jail. Almost makes me want to commit a crime just so I can be there to watch the entertainment.
  ¶ 12:30 PM