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U.S. state executes man despite conviction doubts (www.rawstory.com)
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Two men on death row in the United States were executed Tuesday, including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained his innocence and drawn support from civil rights groups.

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[–] ravhall@discuss.online 14 points 9 months ago

Missouri and Texas

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In bad country, yeonmi-park

[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who is that? I've seen here around in memes

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's Yeonmi Park, a sort of Korean Candace Owens who went on Rogan to talk about how supposedly, in cursed North Korea, they:

-Have never heard of ice cream

-Must push the trains by hand

-Subsist on rats, who subsist on corpses, in an endless cycle of rat-human consumption

-Have no word for love

These are not exaggerations, and I'm definitely forgetting some other bangers as well. In leftist circles, she's kind of become a joke about all the "In Scary Badcountry, (insert cartoonish bullshit here)" propaganda that we all grow up hearing.

[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the explanation, sounds like something I should dredge up and check out for myself!

[–] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago

How about we just don't execute people, even if we know they did it. Life in prison sucks harder.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

This is how people get radicalized.

Then again, at least in the states in question, that’s probably part of the intent. Doing authoritarian shit in the name of “safety” is way easier when you have a bogeyman, regardless of whether or not you yourself had a pivotal role in the creation of said bogeyman.

[–] StThicket@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago

USA is one of the few barbaric countries left. Bad public education, too many police officers with near to no training, high poverty. This is how you increase crime.