• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    3 months ago

    It’s possible for one person to have varying views on multiple topics.

    For example, I’ve been a registered Democrat all my life, but I’m also a gun owner and pro death penalty.

    People vary. Nobody expects purity top to bottom.

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      I would like to have a respectful disagreement.

      I put forward that while it is understandable to desire the death penalty when serving justice, that the government should not enjoy that power. That it is too often erroneous in it’s prosecution of justice, if not occasionally willfully so, to be entrusted with the power to execute any criminal, no matter the crime or preponderance of evidence.

      Your rebuttal, sir/madame/all else.

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        I believe that the death penalty needs to be reserved for the most severe crimes, it shouldn’t be handed out willy nilly like Texas does.

        Case in point, this asshole, there is no “correcting” this behavior. The only response society should have given him is “better luck next time.”

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westley_Allan_Dodd

        It’s a travesty this asshole was allowed to plead out of a death penalty:

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Weaver_III

        Is the death penalty over used? Absolutely. Is it unfairly applied racially? No doubt about it.

        I see those as arguments to correct it and keep it in order to remove literal monsters. It’s not about punishment, or even deterrent, it’s about telling another human being “What you have done is beyond redemption, there’s nothing left for you here.”

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          This is a pretty reasonable take on the death penalty, one I actually pretty closely align with, even with as much as I don’t like it. It needs to be the absolute last resort for only the most heinous and indefensible of crimes.

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              I would hypothetically be for the death penalty for heinous crimes if our judicial system was 100% foolproof. Unfortunately, false convictions happen surprisingly often, there have even been cases of death row inmates being exonerated. I don’t think the benefits of the death penalty justify even one single wrongful death, so practically I’m against it.

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                In the two cases I listed there was no question of guilt. No problem throwing the death penalty at them.

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                  I don’t know the details of those two cases, so perhaps. As a policy it’s still subject to the existence of false convictions though, so not worth it to me

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          I see those as arguments to correct it

          It’s administered by humans and so there will always be error, intentional or otherwise.

          You’re saying you’re comfortable with the state occasionally straight up murdering the wrong guy.

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            Not at all, read the two cases I linked, they are abdolute monsters and there is no question about it. 0% chance of “the wrong guy”.

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              The links aren’t really relevant. What about other cases where the state murdered an innocent person? Just because they get it right sometimes it doesn’t excuse the other times when they don’t.

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                I’m not excusing anything, I’m saying the inherent problems with the death penalty are excuses for correcting it and keeping it rather than getting rid of it.

                There are unequivocable monsters in our society that should be exterminated, I cited two proven examples.

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                  Ok. I see no reason to continue this discussion if you’re just going to ignore the point I’m making. One last time: the system can’t be “corrected”, there will always be errors, innocent people will die.

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                    Absolutely not. When you are caught with photographs of a murdered kid hanging in your closet and their underwear kept as a trophy there is no “error” there.

                    Again, you didn’t read the links I posted or understand the first thing I am saying. There is such a thing as uncontested guilt. In those cases, the death penalty absolutely should apply.

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                  There are unequivocable monsters in our society that should be exterminated

                  And who gets to decide who falls under that? If you ask former (and possibly future) president Trump, the left is “vermin” and immigrants “poison the blood”; his pick for VP is happy to sign off on progressives being called “unhuman”. Should these groups – in their view unequivocable monsters – be exterminated?

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                    I’d say if you get caught cooking human body parts, any logical person would be capable of making that call.

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          What would you say about using the death penalty in a case where corporate mismanagement causes hundreds of deaths, and all those deaths can very clearly traced back to one decision made by one individual, who knew and also should have known the potential consequences?

          Something like the Boeing planes falling out of the sky.

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            I don’t see that as being a death penalty case unless the person involved did it with the intent of killing as many people as possible.