news Official: The Democratic Party no longer oppose the death penalty

[Communion]

 

 

[Virgos Groove]

What the hell??? 

[byzantium]

This is the same party actively supporting genocide, so...on brand for them. 
 

Spoiler

@GhostBox Care to share with the group what upset you?

 

Edited August 22 by byzantium

[BOOMBAYAH]

Ctfu, what's the point of them removing this when the position won't bring in any significant number of people?

[50thStateofMind]

 

 

there is no moral political party that exists, unfortunately.

[on the line]

Well, I still do not support it, but I still support the Democrat party and will vote for them in November because I am not a single-issue voter. Overall, their values still overlap with mine more than the Republican party.

 

[Vegvisir]

I don't understand how it not being on this particular platform means the party endorses it though.

 

Like... the death penalty hasn't been a top line issue for over a decade. It's f*cked up and shouldn't be happening, but aren't there bigger things to focus on in this upcoming election? Who is honestly out there thinking "well guess I'm not voting democrat since they didn't mention opposing capital punishment in the DNC platform this year"?

[Bloodflowers.]

They took Wendy Williams position now

[Losing my ground]

Trump shooting changed their opinions and I don't blame them.

[family.guy123]

Maybe they want to try Genocide Joe for it before abolishing it. 

[awesomepossum]

GOOD! Fry those mf-ers. 

[JO1s]

It's probably not on there because it's not something people actively think about. The dramatics 

[Uncatena]

27 minutes ago, byzantium said:

This is the same party actively supporting genocide, so...on brand for them. 

right, I was going to say... story checks out. 

[Dula Peep]

electric chair!!!1 

[GhostBox]

In my opinion There are some circumstances where the death penalty should be used 🤷

 
but The problem with it overall though is sometimes innocent people are given the sentence who doesn't deserve it. 
 

 

[Prodigal Self]

4 minutes ago, GhostBox said:

In my opinion There are some circumstances where the death penalty should be used 🤷

 
but The problem with it overall though is sometimes innocent people are given the sentence who doesn't deserve it. 
 

 

So what's your overall opinion then? You're almost there!

[monologueNacafe]

37 minutes ago, byzantium said:

This is the same party actively supporting genocide, so...on brand for them. 

 

[QueenB]

30 minutes ago, Vegvisir said:

I don't understand how it not being on this particular platform means the party endorses it though.

 

Like... the death penalty hasn't been a top line issue for over a decade. It's f*cked up and shouldn't be happening, but aren't there bigger things to focus on in this upcoming election? Who is honestly out there thinking "well guess I'm not voting democrat since they didn't mention opposing capital punishment in the DNC platform this year"?

the majority of blue states already banned the death penalty, the only one I can think of is Cali having it still but they halted performing them for a while. So clearly this isn't a main focus in the minds of a democrat, but nuance is dead so clearly it means death is back on the menu

[Velvet Night]

It's not like the Democrats weren't in power since calling for it. They clearly never actually gave a **** to begin with, so at least they're honest about it now. 

Edited August 22 by Velvet Night

[Communion]

36 minutes ago, JO1s said:

It's probably not on there because it's not something people actively think about.

The platform is 92 pages long. 

[Princess Aurora]

54 minutes ago, Losing my ground said:

Trump shooting changed their opinions and I don't blame them.

[awesomepossum]

21 minutes ago, NewStanner said:

Death penalty should be fully banned based on two things at the very least:

 

First, of all, if the person truly did an abhorrent act, instead of dying a quick painless death, they will spend their lives in a prison, reminding themselves of the vile thing they did.

 

Secondly, if they are innocent and it will get eventually proven, they can be set free and live normally further. If they got killed, there would be nothing that could be done about it, which is just a horrifying thought.

 

In other words, death penalty should have no place in any modern society.

There has never been a single case of this happening in the US

[Virgos Groove]

15 minutes ago, awesomepossum said:

There has never been a single case of this happening in the US

???

 

This is objectively false.

 

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Since 1973, 200 former death-row prisoners have been exonerated of all charges related to the wrongful convictions that had put them on death row.

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Executed but possibly innocent:

 

    Carlos DeLuna (Texas, convicted 1983, executed 1989)
    Ruben Cantu (Texas, convicted 1985, executed 1993)
    Larry Griffin (Missouri, convicted 1981, executed 1995)
    Joseph O'Dell (Virginia, convicted 1986, executed 1997)
    David Spence (Texas, convicted 1984, executed 1997)
    Leo Jones (Florida, convicted 1981, executed 1998)
    Gary Graham (Texas, convicted 1981, executed 2000)
    Claude Jones (Texas, convicted 1989, executed 2000)
    Cameron Todd Willingham (Texas, convicted 1992, executed 2004)
    Sedley Alley (Tennessee, convicted 1987, executed 2006)
    Troy Davis (Georgia, convicted 1991, executed 2011)
    Lester Bower (Texas, convicted 1984, executed 2015)
    Brian Terrell (Georgia, convicted 1995, executed 2015)
    Richard Masterson (Texas, convicted 2002, executed 2016)
    Robert Pruett (Texas, convicted 2002, executed 2017)
    Carlton Michael Gary (Georgia, convicted 1986, executed 2018)
    Domineque Ray (Alabama, convicted 1999; executed 2019)
    Larry Swearingen (Texas, convicted 2000, executed 2019)
    Walter Barton (Missouri, convicted 1993, executed 2020)
    Nathaniel Woods (Alabama, convicted 2005, executed 2020)

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George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed by electric chair in June 1944, thus becoming the youngest American with an exact birth date confirmed to be both sentenced to death and executed in the 20th century.

Wikipedia

 

The death penalty is morally abhorrent and indefensible in the 21st century.

Edited August 22 by Virgos Groove

[Thesedays]

1 hour ago, on the line said:

Well, I still do not support it, but I still support the Democrat party and will vote for them in November because I am not a single-issue voter. Overall, their values still overlap with mine more than the Republican party.

 

The single issue is not being the death penalty, universal healthcare and immigrant rights, all of which the Dem Party oppose. And a genocide, of course, which it supports.

 

So many single issues that never seem to stop piling up.

[Sugar-Rush]

Is this in response to Trump saying that he'd give child rapists the death penalty? The DNC can't very well defend such people, so I get why they'd shift stances.