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I am opposed to the death penalty on principle. No court on earth is that infallible. This only drives the point home.

There is no way to implement the death penalty that doesn’t result in cruel and inhuman punishment. Beyond this, there is no human court so infallible that, even if a “better” version could be implemented, they would never err in condemning a person to death. It is sheer hubris to claim otherwise.

Clint Eastwood has directed some unexpected masterpieces in his time. Please see “True Crime” where a falsely convicted man on death row is narrowly saved by Clint’s alcoholic reporter. I love this film. Watch it every year or so.

nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social

Yes, his actual baby daughter co-stars with him. It is all too cute.

@nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social

That they cannot "put someone down" humanely in jail when we have assisted suicide done fine on outside world seems like botching on purpose.👹👹👹

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@abc123-abc.bsky.social

I get what you're saying but assisted suicide has many obstacles. Plus you have the right to choose death. The death penalty is not decided by you. ✌️

Dog & Cats³

@odat2005.bsky.social

Few, if any, of the companies that do it "right" will sell their chemicals to the prisons to use for punishment.

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@jpgriffithmn.bsky.social

Agree. Bryan Stevenson said it best. It’s not about whether someone deserves to die. It’s about whether we as a society deserve to kill.

Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper

Well said.

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“The Tennessean astutely reported, there is a real ‘lack of transparency over how the state is securing’ the pentobarbital it will use, and therefore questions about whether it could be of shoddy quality. This should be especially alarming….” www.memphisflyer.com/pentobarbita...

memphisflyer.comPentobarbital Is Torture - Memphis FlyerAnd Tennessee plans to resume executions with the drug.

Shoshanah in Alaska

@shanahstone.bsky.social

This has brought up so many memories. There were always anti death penalty activists on Riverside Drive by the men’s prison and it always became very tense when there was any chance of an execution happening. I’m horrified that our government does this. It’s torture.

Shoshanah in Alaska@shanahstone.bsky.social

I studied correctional healthcare when I was getting my MSN Nurse Practitioner degree at Vanderbilt and spent a short time at the Women’s Prison. I remember having a short interaction through the cell door with her. It must have been close to when she was convicted.

#whatifDems

@ceasendesist.bsky.social

Especially galling since she and her lawyers raised specific concerns about how her health conditions would complicate the choice of lethal injection. She was worried she would suffer, she asked the judge to hang her instead, the judge rejected her request — and she was right.

#whatifDems

@ceasendesist.bsky.social

#WhatIfDems? Abolish the death penalty. It’s a moral stain on our nation and a cruelty to everyone involved.

Zvyozdochka 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱

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The mother of the original victim said she wanted to witness the execution "for closure". I hope she's happy with this horrific disaster.

Wonder how her victim felt? 19 yo old

Mark Roddy

@markr51.bsky.social

How exactly does barbaric torture of another person change ‘how the victim felt’?

tortured and beat Slemmer for over 30 minutes. During the attack, a pentagram was carved into Slemmer's chest, and Pike eventually bludgeoned her to death, keeping a piece of Slemmer's skull as a souvenir How did the victim feel as she was being killed

Mark Roddy

@markr51.bsky.social

How exactly does the barbaric torture of another person change ‘how the victim felt’?

How are you taking the victim into consideration at all? She was tortured & beat 4 over 30 minutes. During the attack, a pentagram was carved into Slemmer's chest, and Pike eventually bludgeoned her to death, keeping a piece of Slemmer's skull as a souvenir @stephenking.bsky.social ”the green mile”