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goobster  ·  1361 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Death Penalty Can Ensure ‘Justice Is Being Done’

    "...Could have been a different place had we just killed Lee, Davis, Forest, et al..."

WHAT?!? Kill traitors to our nation?!?

No, nononono... we need to build them STATUES! And monuments!

    "...Personally, I do not love the idea that the state can kill people legally..."

I think it is ONLY the state that can kill people legally. It's kinda the whole purpose of having a nation in the first place: for the protection of those within the borders.

That includes putting down the one-in-a-hundred-million that so egregiously breach the social contract that they must be eliminated from society.

(Sidebar: This also needs to include any police officer that kills someone in the line of duty. No more immunity; you kill someone, you go to trial as a murderer until a jury of your peers establishes the killing was in some way justified. Otherwise, death penalty. Want police accountability? Want them to find some way to de-escalate a situation without just shooting willy-nilly and killing people at random? Hold them accountable for their actions. We do it with 18-year olds in the military, so we can absolutely hold our police to the same standard.)





dublinben  ·  1361 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    That includes putting down the one-in-a-hundred-million that so egregiously breach the social contract that they must be eliminated from society.

If only that were the way the death penalty was being used.

goobster  ·  1360 days ago  ·  link  ·  

sigh...

Right? Even our most lethal and questionable tools are being poorly used. In any theater you choose to name...