Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

  • derf82@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The only issue with the death penalty is the potential to execute the innocent. There is no danger of that here. I don’t want to share the planet with this racist prick.

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      10 months ago

      That’s not “the only issue,” you fucking ghoul. It’s a barbaric practice and has no place in a civilized society.

      • derf82@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I don’t think it’s barbaric at all. Hell, if anything, making people care for this asshole for 50+ years is barbaric. There is no rehabilitation for this guy. There is no way he becomes a productive member of society.

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          10 months ago

          If even long-term KKK members can be rehabilitated then so can this kid whose brain hasn’t even fully developed.

          • derf82@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            So what, you think you can just let a mass murderer walk the streets again because he convinced someone he’s rehabilitated?

            Even those long term KKK members didn’t kill people.

          • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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            10 months ago

            What about the families of these 10 victims? They deserve justice more than this kid deserves freedom. I’m not saying he can’t be rehabilitated. I am saying that it is very injust to let this kid to ever have a free life after he ended the lives of 10 people.

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                10 months ago

                I mean I’m not 100 percent that all of them would want it, but it’s what the families want in the majority of these cases. Anytime you see a murderer come up for appeal you usually see family or friends of the victim in interviews saying how they don’t want that to happen.

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                  10 months ago

                  How often do you actually see what victims’ families say when murderers are put on parole? For me it’s occasionally when the news reports on it. I don’t think we can say what the majority want.

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                    10 months ago

                    A lot actually. I watch a lot of true crime documentaries. It happens the vast majority of the time. There are a few cases of mostly Christian people forgiving their families murderer, but most do not ever forgive someone for something like that.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      The other issue is that it quite frequently costs exponentially more to administer the death penalty due to years of appeals. I’m not sure how that would work in this case, since as you said, it’s apparent that the defendant is guilty.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        His appeals will be focused on procedure, rather than facts. Pretty much the go-to defense strategy when a suspect is caught red handed. If you can’t argue the facts of the case, try to get the facts thrown out on technicality (like maybe the police mishandled evidence so it’s not admissible anymore,) or try to minimize the person’s crime as much as possible. Try to get the sentence reduced, try to downplay the convict’s actions, emphasize how much they have changed, etc…

        Basically just damage control. Accept that you aren’t going to come out of it unscathed, so just work to mitigate the damage instead of trying to avoid it altogether.

      • derf82@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I mean, given the choice of paying for him to have 3 squares and a place to sleep, I’d rather pay a little more to be rid of him.

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      10 months ago

      Which is why you execute them immediately, not 20-30 years later. I don’t want to hear about innocent people in jail that long, I don’t even want to hear about guilty people in jail very long. Just kill em and move on regardless, it’s really less cruel.