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It’s always puzzled me how the Constitution says everyone is equal under the law, but certain citizens can be put to death in one state but not another state for the exact same crime. Where is the equal treatment in that?

Jesus that’s a horrific story.

I used to not understand anarchists. I do now. Clearly the constitution written 200+ years ago did not anticipate the level of stupid, depraved, corrupt, incompetent people that this county would produce and unfortunately elect into office.

It is absurd, but there are some crimes so horrible that I would feel no qualms of conscience about a death penalty. This creep, for instance. Because pedos protect pedos and letting a child-raper loose on the streets when the law demands life w/o parole is, IMO, complicity.

Wild. Almost beat by beat. Makes sense that it came from Pope Francis. My shift came about largely due to a piece by John Oliver / Last Week Tonight on the death penalty that made me radically rethink my assumptions. I did some research & thinking after, but he was the catalyst.

More news from the richest 3rd world country...

Well, she’s been executed twice. Surely justice has been served and she’s free to go.

Clearly, ‘God’ wants her alive and we should respect that, maybe even make her president or put her on Hegseth’s task force at least. This is what happens when the stupid people are in charge.

i don’t disagree, but i’m being realistic

Disgusting country

I'd be worried she's now got some horrific injury from the drugs

When I saw the headline in The Guardian, I felt SO ashamed of my country. The barbarian mindset that countenances capital punishment is utterly inexplicable.

Evil shit.

If you’re going to do it, you should use a sword. Do it properly, you half assed Yanks.

WTF? Not helpful? What this girl did was horrible. But, she was herself abused. Killed the person with 2 others- one of whom was 17 so escaped on a ‘technicality’ and the other cut a deal. I mean, all three should have faced the same consequences. And she should never have faced capital punishment .

Absolutely horrifying.

We are a barbaric society.

No, double jeopardy means you can't be tried twice for the same crime. It doesn't mean that the sadistic, incompetent, vengeance-focused state can't keep trying to kill you. 8th amendment applies or it would if we had a legit Supteme Court.

Or at least one officer with a sidearm to end the convict's suffering when the state clowns botch the lethal injection.

I'm no supporter of the death penalty. For many reasons she didn't deserve that sentence. She should have been left rotting in prison for life for what she did. Now they have made her a victim at the expense of her victim and in the name of alleged justice.

It's now 4 hours after the attempted execution, and we (including her lawyers) still don't know where she is or if she's alive. This is malpractice in so many ways by the Tennessee Department of Corrections.