I used to think capital punishment only accomplished one thing: revenge. And I don’t believe the state should be in the revenge business.
I was wrong.
Capital punishment also accomplishes the state sending the message to everyone: We can kill you if we want to. It’s not a deterrent to any crime; it’s a deterrent to standing against the state for any reason.
I have said it to people who are in favor of capital punishment over and over again that nothing good comes out of giving a state the power of life and death over its citizens.
Well, keep saying it because you’re right.
Capital punishment will always be more of a tool to control behavior than a tool to regulate public justice.
A death penalty serves the ultimate purpose of demonstrating that the state can use its power (executive, legislative, and judicial) to order a citizen killed.
The power of the state to kill someone can be wielded arbitrarily based upon laws enacted (legislative), sentences ordered (judicial), and pardons withheld (executive).
Expect more laws and more capital sentences to curb more behaviors that the state wishes to curtail. When they run out of behaviors, expect capital punishment for crimes of belief, thought, and group affiliation for that is the natural progression of authoritarianism, despotism, and tyranny.
I’m going to die anyways from the poison they’re putting into the air and water.
Death is only a decent threat for so long.
I just about puked over her trying to signal virtue wearing a Christian cross, while being part of government murder.
These people are absolutely despicable, and not worth the air they breathe.Doubly appalling when you consider that the crucifix symbolizes the government murder of Jesus on the cross.
Yes absolutely, IDK for sure but maybe it was that, that made it immediately SCREAM double standard to me?
Maybe she’s thinking the crucifix is celebrating execution in general rather than the wrongness of Jesus’ execution. She’s just getting the wrong message from it.
“These criminals are sinners, and just like Jesus before them, they must die for their sins!”
I imagine it goes something like that
I mean, I already knew she was a bag of shit - what is she going for here? The record?
Drummond’s predecessor, John O’Connor, previously sought Hanson’s transfer and sued the Bureau of Prisons in 2022 after it refused to turn over the inmate to state custody during President Joe Biden’s administration. The agency’s regional director at the time, Heriberto Tellez, said the transfer was not in the public interest, a decision Drummond called “appalling.”
Then why is this news?
