There are just over 2,000 DRIs in the entire US, 46 of which are women. Alabama is leading the list with >300 inmates per 10M inhabitants.
There are just over 2,000 DRIs in the entire US, 46 of which are women. Alabama is leading the list with >300 inmates per 10M inhabitants.
The death penalty needs to end in America. Especially with people like Trump at the helm.
I remember when I was younger, I didn’t know if I agreed or disagreed with the death penalty.
My young brain was thinking “Well, if this guy killed someone, why SHOULDN’T he die?”
But as I got older I realized that the justice system is nonexistant. It’s a myth. It doesn’t exist. We don’t have a justice system. We have a punishment system. And it doesn’t care who gets punished, just as long as some politician can say he killed X amount of “criminals”.
But our legal system is so dysfunctional that we hardly ever get a “not guilty” plea. They’ll convince innocent people that they’re about to roll the dice. Plea not guilty, and lose? You’re looking at 60 years. But…plea no contest in a plea deal? You’re looking at 2-5 years. Most people take the deal, even if they’ve done nothing wrong.
So why would I trust THAT system to make a permanent decision to KILL them?
Trump was already wrong about the central park 5. But if we’d have killed them back in the 80s when it happened, you can’t go back and undo it. They served time for something they didn’t do, and are the perfect example of what I’m talking about. We can’t give them back the time they spent wrongfully convicted, but at least they’re not dead.
Not that I’m defending the system.
Any state that needs to be able to kill its own citizens to survive should not survive. Any state that doesn’t need to but wants to kill its own citizens should be destroyed.
Unfortunately, Captain Dipshit has already mandated the death penalty for anyone who kills a cop, and he’s been super keen in recent history on applying it to drug dealers.