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TranscriptAlabama suffocated a man to death in a gas chamber tonight after starving him so he wouldn't choke on his own vomit as they did it. And this was deemed perfectly legal by multiple courts in the vaunted American legal system.

That's what happens when you value institutions over people.

Link for more info: https://www.reuters.com/legal/alabama-prepares-carry-out-first-execution-by-nitrogen-asphyxiation-2024-01-25/

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Man, that's crazy. Almost as crazy as stabbing Elizabeth Sennett to death in her home with fireplace pokers for $1000, then living another ~35 years on the taxpayer dime, and finally being executed for murdering a woman 36 years ago. ¯\(°_o)/¯

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (7 children)

An eye for an eye leaves the world blind. How does killing him improve the world, that keeping him locked up wouldn’t?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Your platitude is bullshit. Eye for an eye has always been a deterrent for most. Gotta kill the rest. Like u said. U can't let them out. Why kill him? Cuz that's the definition of justice when he killed someone.

How is him sitting in prison justice? It's not.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Eye for an eye has always been a deterrent for most.

this is why countries and states that allow execution invariably have lower crime rates

Cuz that’s the definition of justice when he killed someone.

i think justice is when my family doesnt get murdered in the first place because of policies that actually reduce crime, im quirky like that

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