Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

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    10 months ago

    Doesn’t it serve justice to the families and friends of the people who he has killed? I can’t imagine them feeling a sense of justice when their tax dollars are put to work to get this guy back into society.

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      10 months ago

      He doesn’t have to go back to society. Him being sent to prison for life is justice.

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        10 months ago

        Costs money to pay for his living, food, room, guards, water, sewer plumbing, air, heat, AC

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          10 months ago

          It costs a hell of a lot more to execute someone, believe it or not.

          Edit: damn, y’all are some bloodthirsty motherfuckers.

          • arin@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            Only time it costs more is when the cops loses a lawsuit for unloading their clips on an innocent black person

          • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
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            10 months ago

            Only because the methods employed are stupidly wasteful and overcomplicated. The process needs to be overhauled in a logical and pragmatic way. The problem with current means of execution is that feelings were brought into the equation in the first place.

          • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            Then allow executions within days with cheaper, more humane methods like bullets. The only reason it’s more expensive is because of you, and it should not be.

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              10 months ago

              Speeding up executions means more innocent people will be wrongfully executed. How many innocent people are you willing to kill to make sure this this asshole fries?

              • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
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                10 months ago

                Oh the fuck well, that’s the price you pay for living in a society. All societies require their sacrificial lambs in order to prop themselves up because no legal system is perfect nor capable of being so, but we still have to put the well-being of our community above those who threaten or wrong it whether we make mistakes or not. And we give the state the benefit of the doubt in such circumstances because we accept that it’s the only way a community can be functional and work without even WORSE sacrifices.

                You’re gonna tell me that we can’t give life back to those we take it from knowing that’s just as true with people wrongfully convicted and thrown in prison for life – the people who you sentence to be raped, tortured, enslaved, and STILL murdered anyway because your selfish, entitled ass thinks your opinions are better than others. And you absolve yourself of responsibility for the extreme cruelty and suffering you cause by telling yourself, “Well at least they’re alive,” which is a cop-out.

                It’s far more humane to execute someone quickly after a trial because it minimizes the convicted’s suffering, it’s far better for the safety of the community because you are getting rid of a known offender even if the odds they’re actually guilty aren’t 100% perfect, it’s much more morally conscionable than expecting the community and victims to live in fear of offenders and ultimately is the better, more moral way.

                But you don’t understand that because you’re not emphasizing with anyone else, you only care about how you feel about death personally and that is 100% a you problem.

                • HighElfMage@lemmy.world
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                  10 months ago

                  How is executing someone keeping us safer from them than just throwing them in prison? Prison escapes, especially of dangerous, death row level offenders are exceedingly rare, at least in the US. People will point to deterrence, but no scientific studies have been able to demonstrate any significant deterrence effect of capital punishment. You’re just killing people out of anger.

                  I get it, many of these offenders are abhorrent. I won’t lose any sleep over the supermarket shooter getting his. But the death penalty should be abolished.

                  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
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                    10 months ago

                    Because that person is dead which 100% guarantees they will never harm someone again. Whether it deters other people or not is irrelevant. We’re talking about him, this guy, and him alone.

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                  10 months ago

                  If we need to sacrifice human beings, would you like to volunteer? -.-

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                    10 months ago

                    I already have to no matter what I do, so I would rather be humanely executed with a bullet a few days after being wrongfully convicted for something than to be locked in a cage. No matter how gilded that cage is, it would still be a cage, and still a lifetime of unnecessary suffering that is inherently inhumane and cruel as opposed to simple death for which afterwards there IS no suffering, because I’ll be fucking dead.

                    This is why you anti-death penalty ideologues are completely fucking unempathetic, irrational and completely lack self-awareness. You DON’T actually care about what’s moral, simply dominating the conversation and being the ones to dictate to everyone else so you can feel like you’re in control, and who cares about the deaths you personally cause or the millions of lives you ruin every day with your bullshit?

                    Or the genocide you’re enabling?

                  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
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                    10 months ago

                    Oh look at that, it’s the political ideologue retreating because he is being wrong and irrational about this and he knows it.

                    Your ideology is inhumane, unempathetic, destructive and UNSPEAKABLY cruel and you walk this earth with innocent blood on your hands. Blood you vehemently deny is there because morality for you isn’t about what’s best for other people, it’s about dominating other people. Fuck off.

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              10 months ago

              You sound like a member of a Jim Crow era lynch mob. Screw due process, he just looks guilty. Yeehaw!

              • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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                10 months ago

                And you know you don’t have a rational leg to stand on, so when called out on your shit, you do what any self-righteous, self-involved dipshit does: fall back to tired old stereotypes and meaningless insults.

                Why in the world would you think acting that way will convince anyone of anything? Convince me to change my mind?

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      10 months ago

      I wouldn’t feel any sense of justice if my tax money went to killing people.

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          10 months ago

          I live in Sweden. My tax money doesn’t go to any capital punishments because Sweden outlawed them in the 70’s (last known use was in 1910).

          • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            Good for you, there are 197 other countries in the world. You can keep pretending you’re better than everyone else while ignoring the governments of Nordic countries hide the truth behind the crimes their people suffer to keep up this image of perfection they project. The rest of the world knows the truth, though.

            Either way, that’s pretty tangential to the death penalty unless your stance is “Well Sweden doesn’t have it so we’re better than you, nah nah nah nah nah” like that’s supposed to work on actual adults. 🤦

            • ???@lemmy.world
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              10 months ago

              I don’t understand the connection between capital punishment and crime. could you please explain it to me? how does the death penalty deter crimes? are there some statistics that you could show me? thanks.