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Alabama suffocated a man to death in a gas chamber tonight after starving him so he wouldn't choke on his own vomit as they did it. And this was deemed perfectly legal by multiple courts in the vaunted American legal system.
That's what happens when you value institutions over people.
Link for more info: https://www.reuters.com/legal/alabama-prepares-carry-out-first-execution-by-nitrogen-asphyxiation-2024-01-25/
My friend, if death is the punishment for a single murder, what’s stopping them from killing 2 people? 3? 4? 10?
When you dole out a “this is the worst we can do to you” punishment, there’s no reason to stop. This concept actually increases the chances of crime, because “fuck it, I’m gonna die anyway.”
It’s also extremely short sighted. For every ~9 inmates found guilty and sentenced to death, 1 is exonerated. And that isn’t even mentioning the number of people who have been executed who were proven innocent after the fact.
How about we just make the chances of killing an innocent person 0% by no longer executing people?