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Alabama suffocated a man to death in a gas chamber tonight after starving him so he wouldn’t choke on his own vomit as they did it. And this was deemed perfectly legal by multiple courts in the vaunted American legal system.
That’s what happens when you value institutions over people.
Link for more info: https://www.reuters.com/legal/alabama-prepares-carry-out-first-execution-by-nitrogen-asphyxiation-2024-01-25/
Yes, a complete barbarian. We have them too, but we aspire to be better than just being equally barbaric in return. That’s why civilisations do justice, not revenge.
I’m good with revenge.
Chances are, an innocent person has been killed because of the death penalty. That alone has me against it entirely.
That’s a chance we are just going to have to take.
We don’t have to, though. We can just put them in prison.
Or we can execute the guilty, either way is fine with me.
How is that a morally coherent stance? You’re basically condoning state-sanctioned murder.
I’ve made it clear in multiple posts. I’m on the side of justice.
I don’t see any “have to” in here at all. To me, that just looks like a desire to have the state murder people. That’s not justice.
I think executing someone who was convicted of murder is justified.
Elizabeth Sennett’s family can now know some peace. Don’t take it from me, feel free to read their direct quotes below:
_What was the stance of the victim’s family? “Some of these people out there say, ‘Well, he doesn’t need to suffer like that,’” Charles Sennett Jr., one of Ms. Sennett’s sons, told the local station WAAY31 this month. “Well, he didn’t ask Mama how to suffer. They just did it. They stabbed her multiple times.” Another son, Michael Sennett, told NBC News in December that he was frustrated that the state had taken so long to carry out an execution that the judge ordered decades ago.
“It doesn’t matter to me how he goes out, so long as he goes,” he said, noting that Mr. Smith had been in prison “twice as long as I knew my mom.”_
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/execution-alabama-kenneth-smith.html
Who’s moving goalposts now? A decision being “justified” doesn’t mean it’s “a chance we have to take.”
I’ve been consistent on my position as well as my statements. You however have yet to form a coherent argument that wasn’t based in emotion.
How many innocent people are you ok with murdering before it’s no longer worth it?
Last I checked the guy they Nitrogen’d wasn’t innocent.
How many guilty killers are you ok with escaping punishment?
I am ok with every guilty killer not being executed if it means saving a single innocent person. Note that I did not say that I am ok with them being released.
I ask again, how many innocent people are you ok with murdering before it’s no longer worth it?
I’d rather not see any innocent people executed. But nothing made by man is perfect, there are always going to be mistakes. No one wants to kill the innocent but it can happen. That’s the chance we take when living in a state with the death penalty.
Do they just let them go free if they don’t execute them?
No they tried to execute this guy before, it didn’t work so this is their second mistake.
In this case I was responding to a loaded question with another loaded question.
even for 1988 thats not a huge chunk of money. poverty is the biggest driver of crime. imagine if we reinvested all the money we pour into prisons into actually taking care of people
Yeah, and you know what stuck out to me in the article? That the conservative justices said, he was “gaming the system” for too long with…appeals and requests for stays…and that justice wasn’t done until he was murdered.
Like…he was gaming the system by rotting in prison? So these arbiters of justice think justice is only an eye for an eye and these prisons they adore so much are not brutal enough?
Sounds like the husband killed her with his wallet. He wielded this guy like the guy wielded a knife.
It’s absurd to think that killing him would really bring any more peace to the children than destroying the knife.
If anything, having to bear witness to endless appeals and proceedings for 35 years prolongs their torture. I’d really like to see a form of justice that focuses on ensuring the peace and stability of the victims and their family rather than the pain and suffering of the perpetrators.
Man fuck that, someone stabs my mom to death over a measly $1000 and my dad kills himself because he’s the one who paid for it and I’m going to want that anger taken out on someone, better be the ones who did all this.
My dude killed someone for $500, literally doesn’t deserve to live in society and I don’t want to be paying for him to live outside of it.
I’m surprised so many people on lemmy are anti death penalty.
Two eyes for one eye?
Edit: maybe I’ve been misunderstood.