The three state killings came just two days after the Democrats’ sweeping victory in the November 3 midterm elections, which constituted a stunning repudiation of Trump’s policies on social inequality, war, the assault on immigrants and attacks on democratic rights. Yet a wide internet search turns up not a single comment from any Democrat on Thursday’s three executions.
Banning it and doing nothing else wouldn’t be a mercy…
Our entire prison system is systemic torture, and not even effective at reforming prisoners or deterring others from committing crimes later.
That kind of reform has and will continue to be a part of the Dem platform, and without neoliberals running shit we can actually get some done.
The existing system just makes criminals worse and then releases them with less options then they had before.
There’s no reason to make a huge issue about just this slice of the pie, when it can just be listed as a line item in a full justice system reform bill that has an even better chance of passing.
We don’t have to waste time fixing things one at a time, that entire method was just bullshit neoliberals did to slow progress.
Progress can be a fucking bulldozer. It needs to be.