• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    If people are worried about traumatizing the executioners, boo fucking hoo you literally applied to a job killing people.

    Is this what you’re pretending people are upset about regarding the death penalty, vs. the part where it’s state-sanctioned murder where 3-5% of the convicted are innocent?

    The death penalty should be abolished.

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      3 months ago

      In the context of the death penalty existing, firing squad should be an available option. People think it’s less humane because it’s messy.

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        3 months ago

        I think if you’re splitting hairs on how to slaughter people, instead of talking about how it’s a human rights abuse literally everywhere in the West except the USA, you’re really just tacitly endorsing the death penalty.

        Just because it’s legal here doesn’t mean it’s not an atrocity. This is like splitting hairs over what gas to genocide Jews with during WWII instead of brainstorming on how to defeat the Nazis.

        The death penalty is a massive human rights failure, and anyone suggesting anything but abolition is just pro-murder.

        If the desecration of a living human being’s body by perforating them with dozens of lead slugs is what you consider “humane” by any standard, you’re a fucking psychopath. If your “humane” option involves a person being taken away in a body bag destined for a closed-casket funeral, you don’t have any fucking humanity.

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          3 months ago

          I think if you’re splitting hairs on how to slaughter people, instead of talking about how it’s a human rights abuse literally everywhere in the West except the USA, you’re really just tacitly endorsing the death penalty.

          “Instead of”? “tacit endorsement”? Okay. Do me a favor: When the weather permits it, go to the nearest green space, lay down under a tree, and look at the sky for at least 5 minutes. It doesn’t matter the time of day, so long as you don’t stare at the sun.