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Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 19 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Okay that killing sounds brutal as fuck, but also she was a mentally ill kid. Capital punishment is wrong, but not every case is a hill I'll die on, you know?

But there is not even a semblance of justice here.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    At 18, she brutally murdered a classmate and coreobated reports had her bragging about the murder before and after it occurred. That is not a mental health episode. That is real evil.

    Just because you have trauma, you don't get a free pass to murder/mutilate your classmates.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    No one said “free pass to murder.” Whether you agree that her family and society failed her or not, the idea that governments get to kill people is insanely dangerous.

    And what is “coreobated?”

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Sorry, corroborated!

    Still on the fence about the death penalty, it's a coin flip to me if it's worse to spend your life in prison or take a quicker way out. She probably was failed to some degree, but that still isn't an excuse for murder. Life in prison at a minimum.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    No one deserves life in our current prison system.

    I agree that there are people that need to be separated from society at least temporarily. We just need a better system before I’ll condemn anyone to it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    I mean, 30 years in prison and a botched execution, it doesn't sound like she got a free pass at all. I'm sure she can be released on parole at this point, I mean, surely the US prison system has rehabilitated her by now... /s (sadly)

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