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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/
No, I’m talking about absolute justice. Your version is just a degree from letting them off Scott free. If the deterrent for death isn’t death then why punish them at all?
I don’t think people with your reasoning realize that you’re giving the murder what they want. Literally no one wants to die but ppl can do life in prison and laugh about all the people they killed and even profit or be glorified.
That’s your idea of justice in this case and it’s a slap on the face to families who have lost loved ones.
As far as I’m concerned you should look at it like every killer that gets out and kills again is on the shoulders of people like you.
imagine living in TYoOL Two Thousand Twenty Four and still thinking the Code of Hammurabi is the epitome of justice, and that convicts are literal inhuman monsters 100% of the time that exist only to kill and terrorize and crime on people. The system can and does fuck up so the question becomes are all the innocent prisoners executed in Texas every year worth satisfying your absolutely bronze-age sense of justice, or do you think you can join the adults in the room in valuing human life even when it’s complicated?
PS numerous studies have showed the death penalty is not a deterrent, so like there aren’t even facts in your corner, just infantile fee-fees and baby-brained fearmongering.
My friend, if death is the punishment for a single murder, what’s stopping them from killing 2 people? 3? 4? 10?
When you dole out a “this is the worst we can do to you” punishment, there’s no reason to stop. This concept actually increases the chances of crime, because “fuck it, I’m gonna die anyway.”
It’s also extremely short sighted. For every ~9 inmates found guilty and sentenced to death, 1 is exonerated. And that isn’t even mentioning the number of people who have been executed who were proven innocent after the fact.
How about we just make the chances of killing an innocent person 0% by no longer executing people?