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minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink42•2 months agoSometimes it just feels like Americans are freaking savages. Abolish capital punishment.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months agoI understand the feeling, but try not to pigeonhole. There are 300 million Americans, and I haven’t done a survey, but a substantial percent of the population thinks that the death penalty sucks. That’s one reason many states don’t use it at all.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink4•2 months agoI get that some states don’t do it, but the federal government also does it on behalf of everyone.
Sometimes it just feels like Americans are freaking savages. Abolish capital punishment.
I understand the feeling, but try not to pigeonhole. There are 300 million Americans, and I haven’t done a survey, but a substantial percent of the population thinks that the death penalty sucks. That’s one reason many states don’t use it at all.
I get that some states don’t do it, but the federal government also does it on behalf of everyone.
It doesn’t work that way.