Wilshire@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoTennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape convictionsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up193arrow-down1external-linkTennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape convictionsapnews.comWilshire@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square19linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down16·1 year agoExecution is to keep the person away from the rest of everyone else permanently. Your straw man reasons are hilarious tho.
minus-squareImportedReality@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·1 year agoLife imprisonment does exactly the same thing, is cheaper, and doesn’t run the risk of potentially killing an innocent person
minus-squareconditional_soup@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoTo date, 21 people have been exonerated off death row by DNA evidence. The acceptable number of innocent people executed is 0.
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year ago Execution is not preventative of the same person reoffending any more than imprisonment is. You may have missed that part.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoWe didn’t execute the prisoners on Guantanamo, supposedly the most dangerous terrorists in the world. But we have to execute domestic criminals?
Execution is to keep the person away from the rest of everyone else permanently. Your straw man reasons are hilarious tho.
Life imprisonment does exactly the same thing, is cheaper, and doesn’t run the risk of potentially killing an innocent person
To date, 21 people have been exonerated off death row by DNA evidence. The acceptable number of innocent people executed is 0.
You may have missed that part.
We didn’t execute the prisoners on Guantanamo, supposedly the most dangerous terrorists in the world.
But we have to execute domestic criminals?