exxtramedium replied to your post: Read Up
While, in this instance, the death penalty does not seem to an appropriate penalty, I support the death penalty.
Why, exactly? It’s not a real deterrent on violent crime. This isn’t still the Old West, where you string a guy up after a kangaroo trial. The above story is simple evidence that the system is broken. It is not perfect, and a fucking system that kills people needs to be flawless. How many “in this instances” are we allowed to have, just to keep a keep a sickening practice on the books? How many times are judges and juries and counselors allowed to fuck up/conceal evidence/ignore basic codes of human decency just so that we can all go “Yee-haw!” and shoot our guns in the air when we put somebody to death to satisfy our inner Yosemite Sams?
We are all made murderers by this system, and if if you support it, I encourage you to load up for bear and go out huntin’ for rapists and murderers, because it’s the same fucking thing. Just watch out for that death penalty when you eventually get captured.
It disappoints me when I learn that somebody I like on Tumblr advocates this barbaric practice.
