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Alabama suffocated a man to death in a gas chamber tonight after starving him so he wouldn’t choke on his own vomit as they did it. And this was deemed perfectly legal by multiple courts in the vaunted American legal system.
That’s what happens when you value institutions over people.
Link for more info: https://www.reuters.com/legal/alabama-prepares-carry-out-first-execution-by-nitrogen-asphyxiation-2024-01-25/
Yes, a complete barbarian. We have them too, but we aspire to be better than just being equally barbaric in return. That’s why civilisations do justice, not revenge.
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Chances are, an innocent person has been killed because of the death penalty. That alone has me against it entirely.
Many innocent people.
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How many innocent people are you ok with murdering before it’s no longer worth it?
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I am ok with every guilty killer not being executed if it means saving a single innocent person. Note that I did not say that I am ok with them being released.
I ask again, how many innocent people are you ok with murdering before it’s no longer worth it?
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Do they just let them go free if they don’t execute them?
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Apt username.
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer” - William Blackstone.
Buddy are you so deprived of empathy that you have no problem with sending innocent people to their deaths? Are you okay with cops playing judge, jury, and executioner? Lot of innocent people die from cops deciding that its okay if that guy is dead.
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Literally avoided my questions. Why are you okay sending someone who is innocent to death?
Death cult.
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what if it happens to you or your family? then is it still worth it?
I don’t see any “have to” in here at all. To me, that just looks like a desire to have the state murder people. That’s not justice.
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Who’s moving goalposts now? A decision being “justified” doesn’t mean it’s “a chance we have to take.”
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How is that a morally coherent stance? You’re basically condoning state-sanctioned murder.
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We don’t have to, though. We can just put them in prison.
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The problem is that if you get it wrong even once --and we know for a fact, through things like The Innocence Project, that many innocent people have been executed-- then it’s the state committing murder in our name.
Morally I’m not OK with that. Are you?
I’d rather err on the side of caution.
Again, we only have to get it wrong once, which we know we have done, and it’s basically the state murdering an innocent citizen.
How many innocent citizens are you OK with murdering?
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even for 1988 thats not a huge chunk of money. poverty is the biggest driver of crime. imagine if we reinvested all the money we pour into prisons into actually taking care of people
Yeah, and you know what stuck out to me in the article? That the conservative justices said, he was “gaming the system” for too long with…appeals and requests for stays…and that justice wasn’t done until he was murdered.
Like…he was gaming the system by rotting in prison? So these arbiters of justice think justice is only an eye for an eye and these prisons they adore so much are not brutal enough?
Sounds like the husband killed her with his wallet. He wielded this guy like the guy wielded a knife.
It’s absurd to think that killing him would really bring any more peace to the children than destroying the knife.
If anything, having to bear witness to endless appeals and proceedings for 35 years prolongs their torture. I’d really like to see a form of justice that focuses on ensuring the peace and stability of the victims and their family rather than the pain and suffering of the perpetrators.
Man fuck that, someone stabs my mom to death over a measly $1000 and my dad kills himself because he’s the one who paid for it and I’m going to want that anger taken out on someone, better be the ones who did all this.
My dude killed someone for $500, literally doesn’t deserve to live in society and I don’t want to be paying for him to live outside of it.
I’m surprised so many people on lemmy are anti death penalty.
Two eyes for one eye?
Edit: maybe I’ve been misunderstood.