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[–] 28 points 1 month ago

They took their shot, and missed. To try to execute her again would be Cruel & Unusual. You don't have to let her out, but her sentence should be commuted to life in prison without parole.

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

    holy shit you'd think after the first one she'd have served her sentence. Or did she get multiple life sentences?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    What the actual fuck.

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

    Become ungovernable.

    Also, the lethal injection is no less cruel or painful than other forms of execution.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Tennessee everybody. There is a reason they haven't executed any woman in 200 years and she wanted a firing squad.

    Edit. Anyone

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Hopefully one day the Third World will end this barberous practice and join the international rules-based order.

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

    Sounds like she served her sentence, let her go

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

    It’d suck to be her, dumped to live out the remaining few decades of her life on the lowest tier of the American underclass.

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

    I honestly believe if it's gotten to the point that you're willing to commit a murderous act, the death penalty would have never been a deterrant. Make murderers pay for their crimes through a lifetime of slave labor authorized by the 13th amendment.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago*

    I'm ... not touching your second point, but on the first: it's even worse than that. "In for a penny, in for a pound".

    Why would anyone who committed a murder surrender if they know they're going to die anyway? Especially when dying in a shootout looks better than "botched execution". How many of these crimes are already committed by someone that only cares about themselves and hates the people around them? What's their incentive to stop?

    The death penalty seems to me like a great way to turn a murder into something worse.

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