If you had been inches away from someone being shot by an assassin, would you feel that you had been at great risk of death?

As Goomshill mentioned, he's looking at life regardless.. The real conversation should be whether this person can be straightened out/un radicalized.

You mean like one of those church camps where they remove the gay from you?

There's obviously issues with handing out a death penalty easily but in events where it's overwhelming evidence that the individual murdered someone I would rather see death penalty issued in a cost effective manner.

Why carry the cost of these people their entier lives. Take a life, give a life.

I agree with this, and I think more crimes should carry it including corruption, csa, high level drug trafficking.

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Human trafficking, drug trafficking, illegal arms dealing, etc. I have no issue using it.

The issue is what is "overwhelming evidence", what is that considered. Difficult to define that threshold.

While the law may be written and clear, sentencing is left to discretion / judgement.

This post was edited by SBD on Sep 19 2025 06:14am

i came to a similar conclusion after a discussion about capital punishment. i believe it should be reserved for crimes that are severe enough, but also have the correct type of evidence to justify the verdict.

big difference between releasing someone who has been falsely imprisoned after 10 years vs. saying that the guy we executed 10 years ago was innocent when new evidence comes to light.

i have no issues with the eye for an eye mentality, but the state has been known to get it wrong unfortunately. murder, state sanctioned or not, is irreversible.

This post was edited by C4NTWO on Sep 19 2025 10:24am

Extreme right wingers yet again actively demand not to celebrate someones death while celebrating someones death.

Theres no delusion like american right winger delusion.