roachboy

i was going to post something to this earlier, but while i was out, host, aberkok, albania, ms. media and ubertuber said what i had in mind to say better than i would have said it.


anecdotal evidence is not the way to think about the death penalty, which is a social issue, a social problem.
no-one is asking "your heart to bleed" for anyone or anything, shani.
nor does the use of red letters matter terribly because the problem does not lie there.

but what anecdotal evidence and responses to it DOES reveal is an underlying problem with support for the death penalty--that it is predicated on revenge and amounts to a state act of premeditated murder.

but even that is not terribly relevant.

in addition to the questions raised in the posts above:
think class stratification.
think uneven access to counsel.
think about who ends up on death row and who does not.
think about what the overwhelming class composition of those who end up being convicted of capital crimes makes the death penalty into.
then maybe you'll understand something of the reasons why i personally oppose it, for whatever that's worth.

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