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Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination
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"Whatever. As long as we get to kill a man who committed a crime more than 25 years later. Because that's what we call Utah justice."
Agreed, he should have been killed a lot sooner.
Or maybe the state shouldn’t have the power of life and death over it’s citizens since you can’t unkill an innocent person.
Ye. I do think the death penalty has a place, but it's for the most extreme cases where it is 100% obvious that not only did they do it, but them being alive is a threat
It happens, but is REALLY rare
Why would they be more of a threat alive in a supermax prison than dead?
We seem to think a supermax is fine for the terrorists we don't execute.
Those who inspire just by being alive, leading to concentrated attacks to try to free them, or who can otherwise cause influence due to still being alive (e.g. Dahmer for the latter)
Exceptionally rare and would be an exception, not the rule
What exception would be worse than what any of these people are in prison for?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_inmates_at_ADX_Florence
Terry Nichols is in there. He helped kill 168 people in the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Zacarias Moussaoui is in there. He helped facilitate 9/11. He's responsible for the deaths of thousands.
El Chapo is in there. We can't even count the number of deaths he's responsible for and we'll never know.
None of them are on death row.
So tell me- what is this exceptionally rare situation that would warrant the death penalty?
Honestly, I'd say those should be - absolutely horrific amounts of life lost, and inspire others to try it. It's probably a topic we'd not convince each other on
This ~~is~~ should be already the measuring stick for incaraceration.