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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Why are we paying for them to stay alive? Lol.

[–] naught 26 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Life imprisonment is cheaper (in the US) for the taxpayer than execution. Morally, I think the death penalty does not have a leg to stand on. Even in the most egregious cases, who truly has the right to end a life? Can any justice system be 100% accurate? If there is even a slim chance that an innocent could be murdered by the state, the state should not murder. It's valid to have a visceral reaction to horrific crimes like this, but to advocate for murdering even of a guilty party just doesn't mesh with at least my ethics

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That visceral reaction is exactly why victims or their families can't have input. Of course you'd want them to be punished, of course you'd want it to be cruel and unusual.

While I agree the State shouldn't kill, if someone decided not to spend those millions of dollars and instead took these bastards behind the jail and put a $0.15 bullet in each of their skulls I wouldn't be angry.

[–] 10EXP 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This would be so much easier if someone could write their names in a notebook, and somehow kill them of a heart attack as a result of it.

[–] thecrotch 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add a dude eating chips, another dude eating a cupcake, pad it out with 11 hours of nothing at all happening and you've got a hit on your hands somehow

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

To be fair, he ate chips with a neat soundtrack and flashy cuts. Whooooah.

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