The system is not perfect. Until it’s perfect, let’s do away with the death penalty.
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To put this in prospective, 12.6% of the US population are Black.
38% of the Prison population, 48% of death penalties handed down, and 12.6% of the total population.
But our system isn’t racist or anything, of course not.
People kill people who kill people not to show that killing is wrong, but to end the lives of people who have absolutely no right to live.
Must. Contain. Rage.
You’re an idiot OP. What fucking right is it of ours to end someone’s life? How do they not have a right to live? If you really wanted to punish someone, you’d let them live with the guilt of killing a fellow human being.
And you can’t reverse death. What if that person you killed ends up being innocent? What then? Do you just magically go back and not kill them. OH THAT’S RIGHT YOU CAN’T.
Reggie Clemons was sentenced to death in St. Louis as an accomplice to a 1991 murder. There was no physical evidence and since allegations have arisen of police coercion, prosecutorial misconduct, and a ‘stacked’ jury in the Clemons case. Despite so many lingering questions, Missouri is still planning to execute Reggie Clemons.
Last month one man was judicially tried, convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection also known as the death penalty. The death penalty has been outlawed in several states including…
Can we stop with the whole “LOLOLOL BUT ABORTIONS ARE THE SAME.”
There’s a huge difference between a government killing its own citizens as “retribution” for the death of another and a woman’s right to choose what to do with her body.
There’s also a huge difference between a full grown man and a clump of cells.
