Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen

  • @derf82
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    -91 year ago

    Read the rest of what I said. There is no doubt here. I do think the death penalty should require a higher standard of guilt. But some people, through their actions, simply have forfeited their right to live.

    • @PostmodernPythia
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      61 year ago

      Glad to have it straight from the moral arbiter of the universe, someone who feels they can personally determine, from a safe distance, whether someone has forfeited their life. Otherwise I’d be seriously worried the state was carrying out a horribly immoral practice that regularly results in murder of innocents in order to deliver, at best, the short-lived false victory of vengeance, for the low priceof permanently extinguishing of a human life. Which I’ll remind you doesn’t bring back their victims.

      • @derf82
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        -21 year ago

        I am allowed moral opinion, same as you.

        • @PostmodernPythia
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          51 year ago

          I know, me pointing out that the pompous way you phrased your opinion made it sound like you thought you were expounding on universal truths isn’t going to stop you. It wasn’t intended to. Maybe if you don’t want pushback next time, avoid the phrase “have forfeited their right to live.”

          • @derf82
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            -21 year ago

            Stating my own opinion is “pompous.” Whatever.

            • @PostmodernPythia
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              41 year ago

              I told you the specific language that sounded pompous, so if you could stop playing the victim, that’d be great.