Hi ATRL, let's have a mature discussion about this please. 🙏

Keen to hear some intellectual thoughts here.

No, in any capacity.

When otherwise progressive people support the death penalty I always think of this:

Things like the death penalty will always disproportionately impact marginalized people. I think it's also inhumane and the ultimate punitive punishment.

Maybe there's a conversation about war crimes/in situations like WW2/the Civil War, but I do not support it ever for civilians.

I understand the sentiment and it's very valid, but no. The state shouldn't have a right to kill its own citizens.

Besides, in an era where the most powerful people in the world call anyone they don't like "pedophiles", it's a terrible idea to give those people the power to legally kill "pedophiles".

I believe we should bring it back for the most severe of offences like murder, pedophilia and rape. You would also need to be convicted by a jury of 12 and have indisputable evidence against you. Why should we keep filth alive?

And yes - Trump would be gone

N to the O

Honestly if it can empty jails so us the tax payers stop paying rents for criminals why not

9 minutes ago, WhatWasThat! said:

I believe we should bring it back for the most severe of offences like murder, pedophilia and rape. You would also need to be convicted by a jury of 12 and have indisputable evidence against you. Why should we keep filth alive?

Why should that filth deserve to die in a quick painless way? If someone does something incredibly heinous like raping and murdering someone, they deserve to live a long life suffering every day

5 minutes ago, WhatWasThat! said:

I believe we should bring it back for the most severe of offences like murder, pedophilia and rape. You would also need to be convicted by a jury of 12 and have indisputable evidence against you. Why should we keep filth alive?

agree.

Just now, Toxic Love said:

Why should that filth deserve to die in a quick painless way? If someone does something incredibly heinous like raping and murdering someone, they deserve to live a long life suffering every day

Be for real sis. They live for free on our dime lifting weights, watching tv and eating food.

I don't see how anyone could ever have enough faith in their state apparatus to give them the license to kill its own citizens.

How many stories of wrongly incarcerated black men do we need, for instance?

10 minutes ago, WhatWasThat! said:

I believe we should bring it back for the most severe of offences like murder, pedophilia and rape. You would also need to be convicted by a jury of 12 and have indisputable evidence against you. Why should we keep filth alive?

The irony of you posting this and defending Michael Jackson in the other threads

Only for Trump

It terrifies me that anyone could make this about race. When you're so woke that you automatically make connections between POC and heinous acts. It just screams yt saviour secret racist

People are saying that may happen to D4vd but idk I think life is prison be better than giving them the easy way out

1 minute ago, Haze said:

The irony of you posting this and defending Michael Jackson in the other threads

He is INNOCENT and has never been convicted by a jury so there is literally no hypocrisy here at all.

Yes for right wing politicians and billionaires who dont pay taxes

3 minutes ago, WhatWasThat! said:

It terrifies me that anyone could make this about race. When you're so woke that you automatically make connections between POC and heinous acts. It just screams yt saviour secret racist

So … the actual history of the death penalty does not matter? Worms for brains.

16 minutes ago, WhatWasThat! said:

I believe we should bring it back for the most severe of offences like murder, pedophilia and rape. You would also need to be convicted by a jury of 12 and have indisputable evidence against you. Why should we keep filth alive?

Some people murder their abusers, should they be killed?

Life/crime is never black and white

5 minutes ago, WhatWasThat! said:

It terrifies me that anyone could make this about race. When you're so woke that you automatically make connections between POC and heinous acts. It just screams yt saviour secret racist

When you're so dumb and ignorant that you don't know anything about the disproportionate arrest rates and incarceration of POC…

6 minutes ago, WhatWasThat! said:

It terrifies me that anyone could make this about race. When you're so woke that you automatically make connections between POC and heinous acts. It just screams yt saviour secret racist

https://www.nacdl.org/Content/Race-and-the-Death-Penalty

Maybe do some reading on the subject.

Yes bring it back full stop

26 minutes ago, Démodé said:

No, in any capacity.

exactly that

In a world where the police often intimidate and threaten their suspects, force false confessions and fabricate and falsify evidence, how on earth could you think the death penalty is appropriate. Not to mention clear implicit biases among judges and jurors that often result in innocent people being found guilty. Even just one innocent person being wrongfully murdered by this heinous policy is one too many.

41 minutes ago, Cain said:

When you're so dumb and ignorant that you don't know anything about the disproportionate arrest rates and incarceration of POC…

43 minutes ago, Haze said:

So … the actual history of the death penalty does not matter? Worms for brains.

These lashings