Nothing good is happening in Florida these days, but one of the more disturbing trends is rightists trying to expand the use of the death penalty. I don’t think I need to explain why it is a bad idea for alt-right and Zionist sympathizers to be the ones to expand the usage of the death penalty, but I will type out a quick explanation for those who are not up to speed. The death penalty is basically violence from the state, and will therefore reflect the goals and class interests that the state upholds. If you give the death penalty to a regime like Florida’s current government, you’re going to have a bunch of ammunition for the suppression of civil rights and dissidents.
In a legal system that is designed to imprison and exploit the forced labor of the citizens of a country, how can a rational person put faith in the death penalty it gives out? This seems like a stepping stone to murdering the next Rosa Luxembourg. Anyone working for the bourgeoisie is inherently a butcher and a criminal, so no matter how reasonable they claim to want to use the death penalty it should not be trusted by comrades. And this is without even going into what the Florida regime is doing to transgender people, LGBT, and the senseless attacks on women’s reproductive health. Just in 2023, there were also 8,070 deaths from COVID that we can add to his death count. He may not have murdered millions of people like a US president, but that’s only because state governors don’t have drones to bomb people with, or control of the military to go and send into the third world to pillage and bomb their countries.
So do you really want a brutal regime like the United States government to have a death penalty, especially one that is being pushed by extremist agendas? You can guarantee someone will eventually be put to death for the wrong reasons. Just think what may happen to the next revolutionary the government decides to oppress. Advocating the death penalty under these conditions is just madness.