How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’
www.themarshallproject.org
The number of people imprisoned for life continues to climb, even as the overall prison population declines.

The number of people imprisoned for life continues to climb, even as the overall prison population declines.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    46·
    1 month ago

    One criticism of life-without-parole sentencing is that prisoners facing that punishment have access to fewer legal protections than those with death sentences — and it can be nearly impossible to get a wrongful conviction overturned for those serving life. That’s why two of the 37 federal prisoners whose death sentences were commuted in December by then-President Joe Biden refused to sign paperwork accepting clemency, and instead filed emergency motions in federal court to block the action.

    Read the article dude. The issue is that we’re basically murdering people, just in a different way. In a slower, more psychologically traumatizing way. These facilities ain’t fuckin great. This isn’t better they’re both fucking bad.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
      91·
      1 month ago

      You just want to indict the entire legal system and any steps to improve it, but not offer any suggestions.

      How do you get to the point where you’re criticizing a reduction in executions?

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        68·
        1 month ago

        Dude there’s a whole set of theory called Critical Theory which deals entirely with the idea that we must always critique the status quo because things can always be better. In fact, Critical Race Theory, which became a trumped up bogeyman for the right, is a subset of Critical Theory.

        Maybe if you knew someone on the inside with no hope of getting out you’d feel different and want this ended as well as the death sentence. I don’t know man, I don’t have solutions because we have a fascist steamrolling our government. Sorry I had the fucking audacity to say anything I guess I should shut my mouth to protect myself from the Fuhrer like a good little prole.

        • woop_woop@lemmy.world
          71·
          1 month ago

          There is a difference between approaching a solution with “no, it’s not good enough” and “good, now let’s make it better”. It’s not really different if you strip feeling out of it, but in a greater context, that feeling means something.

          I agree with your responses, but you’re overall using the former technique. That will rub people wrong and spark conflict.