alt Hacker NewsHot take, but I feel like no humans should be killed as a punishment... But I'm also probably too European to understand the true value of death penalty.
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If someone kills a family member and the court gives them 6 years and a parole officer, the remaining family will and has taken justice into their own hands and that has a much higher blast radius and margin of error than executing a guy convicted of the murder in a court of law and sat on death row making appeals for 10-15 years.
If dylan roof was allowed to live his full natural life in jail, there would be race riots in the US by the end of the press conference.
It's a uniquely-American perspective: "Our government can't do anything right. But hey, I still trust it to kill the right people."
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I'm only against the death penalty for the simple fact that courts have convicted innocent people. Sometimes, that conviction happens when the court actively blocks exonerating evidence.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/284/
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/547/319/