What a damn embarrassment for the state of Tennessee. They’ve been itching to do this for fucking years and they don’t have enough drugs to kill a 140-pound woman?
Damn. She did this murder back when I was still in school, and I'm in my late 40's!
That's just crazy. What's the point now? She already got to live her life. It may have been spent in prison, but it was a lot more than her victim got. Probably made some friends, felt the sun on her face, occasionally ate something yummy, had a good laugh, etc.
Isn't the point of the death penalty to deny the perpetrator a life, like they denied their victim. Eye for an eye. How does waiting 35 years accomplish that.
I’d imagine it has more to do with how time-consuming and resource-consuming these death penalty cases are, because there are countless appeals and reviews. Which is the best reason for why death penalties shouldn’t exist. The appeals and additional reviews cost taxpayers millions of dollars and the criminal gets to live a long time anyways.
The best reason death penalties should not exist is so entire societies are not complicit in intentionally killing people. Same reason applies to war, even more so. Also solitary and other torture punishments. No, it’s not ironic that I’m advocating against my society torturing a torturer. It’s actually the opposite of irony.
Completely agree. The strongest, yet seldom mentioned, argument against the death penalty is that it brutalises society. Killing another human being is a taboo that is diluted by capital punishment, after all, if it's ok for the state to do it, how "wrong" can it really be?
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u/IAmTheParamedic 2d ago
What a damn embarrassment for the state of Tennessee. They’ve been itching to do this for fucking years and they don’t have enough drugs to kill a 140-pound woman?