RE: Dylann Roof sentenced to death
January 13, 2017 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2017 at 2:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 13, 2017 at 1:53 pm)Shell B Wrote: I'm not overestimating anything. I'm presenting what I think would be ideal situations for the use of the death penalty. We mostly agree. The system fucks up. When and where there is a time when there is absolutely no question about a person's guilt, I'm perfectly fine with the state offing a guy or gal. It's that simple.I like to think that we do mostly agree. I don't know that there's ever a point where we can be 100% (we're not required to be anyway), and even in such a case I'm still not okay with the state offing the guy or gal...but I have objections to it other than the guilt of any specific individual.
Quote:This is a thread about Roof.It seems to have evolved since then, like threads usually do, lol. The case of one person is an insufficient basis around which to form or justify a system which will -and must by law be- applied to many others. Being fine with it, in roofs case, won;t change how an equal application of that system creates terrible, terrible problems.
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