After reading "The Bet", what did the character have to say about imprisonment versus the death penalty?

Whether or not the experiment of the lawyer and the banker has proven that capital punishment is less cruel than life imprisonment is debatable even at the end of the narrative of "The Bet." It has, however, demonstrated that forced isolation is a terrible thing.

According to Chekhov in The Bet, he states,“Capital punishment kills a man at once, but lifelong imprisonment kills him slowly” (Chekhov,1). This quote proves that even though the banker thinks killing themselves are bad, but dying slowly is better than dying at once.

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Many people during this time, including Washington, felt that slavery was justified because the slaves in America were previously slaves in Africa, and were treated more poorly by their African masters than they were by their American masters. This was of course heavily refuted.