• GiddyGap@lemm.eeOP
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    2 months ago

    Sometimes it just feels like Americans are freaking savages. Abolish capital punishment.

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I understand the feeling, but try not to pigeonhole. There are 300 million Americans, and I haven’t done a survey, but a substantial percent of the population thinks that the death penalty sucks. That’s one reason many states don’t use it at all.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Regardless of his guilt, the death penalty should only be levied when there is no other viable option. This is a travesty.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      What other options would have made him less black? Let’s be honest, this was because he’s black.

  • Bobmighty@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The death penalty is just a system of torture and bloody minded vengeance. This dude was innocent and it didn’t matter at all. Anyone that argues in favor of this type of shit is a broken minded psycho that should be shunned.

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      2 months ago

      How do you know he was innocent? Not trying argue, just wondering.

      “Owens was convicted of the 1997 killing of a Greenville convenience store clerk during a robbery. While on trial, Owens killed a person incarcerated at a county jail. His confession to that attack was read to two different juries and a judge who all sentenced him to death.”