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Ngl death penalty is over hated. Like it should be used very sparingly, but sometimes you need that. Like mass murderers totally deserve it. And probably war criminals and politicians and government leaders responsible for genocides too. Anyone agree?
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Anonymous 8w

Look I agree that certain crimes based on severity warrant more severe punishments but the only issue with that is the possibility that someone could die or be severely punished over false convictions which disproportionately affect poc and impoverished people

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Anonymous 9w

Castration would be a highly effective punishment for violent criminals. It would both make them less violent and stop them from reproducing.

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Anonymous 8w

The main issue is that the courts are never 100% accurate. Innocent people will always get killed. It's a question of if killing those murderers is worth some innocent people never getting the chance to be exonerated and I don't see that as worth it

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Anonymous 8w

one problem is with inconsistencies with statistics. just like certain groups are more likely to be put on death row, the same groups are proportionally just as likely to have their ruling overturned later. ie as a black dude, maybe you ARE more likely to commit a crime, but that also means you are more likely to be falsely accused.

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Anonymous 8w

There are worse punishments than death that cost less money in appeals and actual euthanasia costs

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Anonymous 9w

Yeah Lindsay Clancy should get that

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Anonymous 8w

And Lindsay Clancy

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

so would launching them into the sun, if you didn’t know.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

Didn’t the Nazis do that?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

The Nazis also used the death penalty but I don't think that totally matters here. They used castration for eugenics, not sex offenses

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

However I do not trust anyone to be in control of the punishment machine because we've started considering trans people to be sex offenders in some places

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

also have put a trans woman in prison for 50 years for ‘terrorism’ (sitting in her car within a half mile radius of a protestor who shot a cop).

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

Ouh many such cases I fear. People fucking hate us

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 8w

If this reads confusing, once you are on death row, who you are doesn’t really matter, men, women, hispanic, white, you are all about as likely to be exonerated, so the amount of people who were falsely executed is proportional to the prison population’s ethnicities/gender.

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