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15. If it were in a civilized state

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Thu Jun 9, 2022, 11:18 AM

Jun 2022

I would start up a mass movement to have indicted any judge that voted for an (even possibly) innocent man to be executed. That is premeditated murder, and still punishable by death in the very states where it is most likely to happen.

Although I am against the death penalty in principle, judges that are willing to let their states perform ritual executions on people who could be innocent are no better than cold-blooded hired assassins. There is no better fate to befall them than the one that they, themselves, mete out with such high-handedness, and such indifference to their victims.

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The new court's absurd inhumanity: To preserve procedure, an innocent man must die [View all] ck4829 Jun 2022 OP

Sounds like authoritarianism to me mucifer Jun 2022 #1

Why yes, yes it does ck4829 Jun 2022 #2

And fascism, and sadism, and intellectual laziness, and belligerent ignorance, Dark n Stormy Knight Jun 2022 #33

Now we have our very own Dreyfus Affair. Hugin Jun 2022 #3

Yep ck4829 Jun 2022 #5

WTF? spanone Jun 2022 #4

This a good podcast anyway, but they covered this: Volaris Jun 2022 #28

The hypocrisy of the decision is right out in the open nuxvomica Jun 2022 #6

Oh, so now they're advocates of procedure? Baitball Blogger Jun 2022 #7

Selective processing is part of that ilk's thinking. Look at the COVID vaccine v. abortion AZLD4Candidate Jun 2022 #16

✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t msfiddlestix Jun 2022 #8

if a person is executed and later shown to be innocent moonshinegnomie Jun 2022 #9

It's a primitive sacrificial scapegoat mentality. They don't care if he's Gaugamela Jun 2022 #10

Oh yes, the parallels between sacrifice though history and execution are stunning to say the least ck4829 Jun 2022 #11

Yep. Same with the right's view of school shootings. It's child sacrifice. Gaugamela Jun 2022 #12

If the Right takes over, this "experiment" is over. AZLD4Candidate Jun 2022 #14

This guy said the quiet part out loud: Gaugamela Jun 2022 #17

Well, sure, but the reason why Bill Clinton signed this law... Effete Snob Jun 2022 #21

True enough, but the OP refers to the recent SCOTUS decision Gaugamela Jun 2022 #26

No, I am not referring to the 1994 crime bill Effete Snob Jun 2022 #29

Like you, I've been a DU member since 2004, and the reason I have such a low post Gaugamela Jun 2022 #31

The problem is indeed the death penalty Effete Snob Jun 2022 #32

'Better to let ten guilty free than let one innocent suffer' - paraphrasing Blackstone AZLD4Candidate Jun 2022 #13

If it were in a civilized state DFW Jun 2022 #15

Here's a list of those who voted for it Effete Snob Jun 2022 #19

I agree. Haggard Celine Jun 2022 #24

This is UNACCEPTABLE. I am outraged that an INNOCENT MAN may die. iluvtennis Jun 2022 #18

WTF ?!?!?! TeamProg Jun 2022 #20

this isn't a problem, for the repukes, this is a solution. Javaman Jun 2022 #22

Bill Clinton was not a Republican Effete Snob Jun 2022 #23

Not many seem to want to dumbcat Jun 2022 #27

Truth is sometimes inconvenient Effete Snob Jun 2022 #30

K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 #25

K&R Solly Mack Jun 2022 #34

This court is illegitimate, plain and simple. DemocraticPatriot Jun 2022 #35

Indeed ck4829 Jun 2022 #36

How fucked up is this country? edhopper Jun 2022 #37