• iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    You either are in favor of death penalty or you are not. There is no “but in this case I support it”.

    Wow. Lemmy is in favor of double standards today. Death penalty for the people I think deserve it, but not for those whom I don’t think deserve it?

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      2 years ago

      They clearly explained that their reason for opposing the death penalty in the first place is the chance of error.

      I oppose the death penalty for the same reason. I have no problem executing serial killers for example. I do have a problem with accidentally executing innocent people.

      I’d be willing to say that I’m for the death penalty in the case of a serial killer as long as circumstantial evidence isn’t the determining factor. I’d like to see irrefutable evidence before they are sentenced.

      In freak cases that require absurd circumstances, I would never support the death penalty. Someone shoots the man he catches his wife with? Yeah, no. Jail is good enough. That dude isn’t just an outright danger to society. He’s just a dude who lost his shit in a moment and would have carried on living his normal life under different circumstances.

      Dude spends 10 years stalking and murdering his dates and flushing them down the toilet in pieces? Yeah, the world is better off putting him on down to sleep forever.

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      2 years ago

      Liberals want to murder individuals who do acts of evil. Leftists want to murder the systems that make those individuals in the first place.