To clarify, this isn’t actually specifically about today’s threat - the lawyers have been jockeying for a few days about the conditions under which the government will produce discovery, and this order is mostly an attempt to speed up that process rather than let Trump’s people dither and delay. The business today just adds a bit of extra urgency to getting the trial done quickly.
I'll always maintain that forcing someone to live with their decisions (not mistakes -- decisions... there's a difference) is way more punishment than giving them release from them.
This may hold some merit in situations where the perpetrator does, in fact, feel remorse, guilt, and negativity toward their actions.
In cases like this, I believe this person would live out their days feeling justified in what they did, and use their incarceration as proof of the very conspiracy theories that fueled their actions.
Bigger picture, capital punishment is one of those topics where I’m undecided overall and feel that there’s a lot of valid takes, on both sides of the issue. I also feel there’s a lot of bad takes too, of course, but that’s common on any issue.
That all being said, in this specific instance, I feel that, personally, it’s a situation that has me reevaluating the bigger picture and looking at the role of government, the legal system, and punishment…capital and otherwise…as expressions of our society’s pursuit of justice.
In this light, and in this specific situation, I’m not sure the traditional pros and cons arguments about the death penalty apply, at least in my mind. Rather, this is an open and closed case with no doubts on who was responsible, what their thought process was, etc. It’s not like DNA evidence will suddenly clear this person’s name of all wrongdoing in twenty years.
At this point, for me, carrying out a death sentence (or not carrying out a death sentence) isn’t about what’s right or fair or measured or appropriate as it concerns the relationship between the justice system and the perpetrator. Rather (again, in my subjective view), it’s simply about the justice system doing what is within its power for the victims, survivors, and their loved ones/community.
In my mind, there’s no question that this person deserves to die, and if that’s what a jury of this person’s peers, in their community, has decided is appropriate…and the justice system has the legal capability of carrying it out, then in this specific case, I fully support that course of action.
I think it’s really flawed logic to say that the death penalty condones or encourges murder. I also think it’s designed to be the ultimate justice, not a deterrent. Here’s my opinion on the matter:
Are there monsters who deserve death? Absolutely!
Is killing citizens a power we should give to the state? Never.
When ANY killing is acceptable, murder becomes slightly less reprehensible to a society.
If the state kills someone through the courts because they deserve the death penalty, then when a murderer feels a person deserves it, they can justify, in their minds, the killing of a person.
Again, any killing of a human should be the ultimate taboo. That’s the way to decrease murder in a society.
Following that logic we should make killing a taboo but putting a human -guilty or not- in a concrete bucket for the rest of his life not? I don’t have a solution, but I know, revenge isn’t justice and that is NOT the solution.
The death penalty isn’t about punishing criminals.
Society as a whole decides that due to a person’s actions and values they can no longer qualify as a person like the rest of us. To be a person you are required to value people’s lives. There is no room for choice or debate about this matter, it doesn’t matter what your religion or your heritage is, if you are a person, you’re required to value the life of other people.
When failure cases like this guy and Dylan roof show up, we have to judge whether or not they’re capable of valuing life and if they’re not then they’re not people. It’s that simple. And if you’re not a person, your livestock and human livestock is pretty damn worthless, so you might as well slaughter them on the spot.
Problem is that there are innocent people convicted of crimes, and the death penalty assures that at least one innocent person will be killed for a crime they didn't commit.
That's a high price to pay for the supposed satisfaction of removing a psychopath from the living.
To say it’s as simple as a jury deciding a person is no longer a person and we can then dispose of them? What about the innocent people who’ve been executed? An acceptable level of collateral damage, even when you admit capital punishment isn’t about punishment?
What about when a we decide a whole group of people aren’t people? That’s happened multiple times throughout history.
And there’s the limiting factor. Since there’s no way to reverse capital punishment like you can just take someone out of jail; A jury has to have absolutly no doubt and no more possible questions before deciding that this criminal can or can’t change. The bar for capital punishment should the 1000 times higher than the next highest bar. It is because of my stance that I’m upset at how often people are condemed to death, capital punishment is being used too loosely and if society isn’t capable of dispationatly executing a failed human and instead choose to take their feelings out on the bad guy then captial punishment should be banned.
I don’t see what’s wrong with acknowledging the fact that some humans are objectivly failures and have no place being compared to the average person. There aren’t that many of them, most people (like 98%) are good people and will never beable to be judged like this because noone can possibly be holier than everyone. It’s not a hard stance, its a system of value that acknowledges that some people are not actually people. It’ noones fault until it can be proven to be someones fault and when it happens you have to clean up.
What about when a we decide a whole group of people aren’t people?
Ok, bear with me. It’s actually as easy as not deciding that groups of people aren’t people. Right? You don’t have to do that, there’s no rule requiring you to do it. People aren’t groups and groups aren’t people.
That’s happened multiple times throughout history.
We’re all collectively better than those people for these simple facts:
we don’t drink the water we shit in
we wash our hands
we comprehend the fact that people are worth more alive than dead
Almost like adding unsupervised obstacles to a dangerous environment contributes to harmful outcomes. Somebody should get paid to write up an article on the subject for the Journal of Foreseeable Consequences.
If I booby-trap my home and somebody gets killed trying to break in, I (rightfully) go to prison for murder. If a politician booby-traps a border (with exceptions for situations involving war) and somebody gets killed trying to cross, they should end up behind bars too.
Luckily, ignorance of the law does not insulate those individuals from consequences if they act on their incorrect beliefs. Just wish we’d apply the same line of thinking without regard for the perpetrator’s level of political influence.
Is there any actual point to the chemical that chevron wants to add to the fuel mixture, or is it just filler to make the fuel cheaper to produce, thus making more money for chevron?
Having a purpose wouldn’t make this ok, but not having a purpose other than filler would make this even more sleazy!
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