The US regime just executed another innocent black man.
The US regime just executed another innocent black man.
Marcellus Williams faces execution on Sept. 24, for a crime he did not commit. Read key facts about the case and act to stop this injustice.
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- Be an advanced, developed nation
- Maintain the death penalty
Pick one.
- Be an advanced, developed nation
The south is not remotely an advanced, developed nation.
It's like if you took Brussels, then glued the worst bits of Somalia to it.
We had to fight a war to get them to stop keeping black people as pets, and they just kept doing it anyway.
Hitler wrote of the south specifically as an inspiration for German genetic policies (Jim Crow) in Mein Kampf. Black GIs came home from killing nazis to be lynched from trees.
No.
Death > imprisonment
You can't suffer while dead, and you certainly can't be a prison pimped slave worker while dead. There's also no way to profit from an execution so far as I can tell.
Some people need to be gotten rid of instead of being made to suffer on my dime. This is especially true depending on your views on free will. It's triple true when you consider how much crime is just a result of unnatural financial pressures that none of us evolved to deal with.
That is frankly a disgusting point of view. Death and non-rehabilitory imprisonment are both wrong but not because it "costs money".
This is clearly from an incredibly privileged person, because if you understood how minoritized people are treated by the legal system you wouldn't be arguing for more executions.
And the huge list of people executed by the state despite it being reasonably likely they're actually innocent is... cheaper (it's not), and therefore acceptable?
Absolutely not. I've been bullied into a false conviction myself. The reason why is that they absolutely do not give a single fuck about the people they're ruining. Even the slightest bit of interest in being right from the court system and police would be a massive improvement for everyone. If suggest training if the problem was stupidity, but it's malice. They know what the fuck they're doing.
Which is why you... support the death penalty? Am I misunderstanding something here?
I'm just putting it above imprisonment. I think that if you believe someone needs punished so badly, you should have the conviction to kill them because otherwise you're just making things worse for everyone. The issue at hand is that nobody has conviction anymore. What they have is blind rage and not enough time or resources to figure out where to put that because we're all kept busy by the people farming us and controlling the story. Things like petty theft wouldn't matter if our economic value weren't skimmed by employers so ridiculously.
There’s also no way to profit from an execution so far as I can tell.
there absolutely is, with legal injections whoever sells them makes money, you save money as a prison by not having to house these people, and while you can't exploit them for labor, there is never really a guarantee that you can. It's a little more nuanced than this, for example solitary confinement generally makes it pretty hard to make money off of people. Death row is often a multi year process, taking many many thousands of dollars of human upkeep to keep it going.
technically you could go a step futher and say there's a broader economic benefit to killing them as you can use it as some sort of social driving pressure. Stalinist USSR for example.