• @CharlesDarwin
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    3011 months ago

    I cannot believe we still have the death penalty. Crazy.

    • @ExfilBravo
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      411 months ago

      Mostly in backwards bumpkin states like Alabama. Most civilized states don’t do it or just never use the penalty.

    • @[email protected]
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      -1511 months ago

      What is the problem with death penalty? Definitely needed for crimes of sexual violence or murder nature for example.

      • @Girru00
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        611 months ago

        Crimes or convictions? See, they dont always match 1:1

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          Doesn’t really matter, why would you want to give them the easy way out?

          You also can’t rehabilitate someone if they’re dead which is the whole point of punishment

      • @mojofrododojo
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        211 months ago

        the problem isn’t that people want those scumfucks to live a life in prison, it’s that we don’t have equal law enforcement in this country, so any capital punishment - esp death - would not be applied equally, which is pretty much what we see today.

        Don’t mistake, I’d prefer rapists and molesters get deleted, but until we can be 100% sure every time that the person being punished is the criminal, it ain’t worth it.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 months ago

        Innocent people are killed by the state, is the problem.
        Most people aren’t willing to sacrifice innocent lives in order to be able to sacrifice guilty ones.