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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago

If we live in a country where a child can get ran over or shot every day and nobody gets prison time for it, we can set a man free who kills a serial killer that preys on the poor and injured for profit.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 59 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This has a potentially significant chance of backfiring, as it is more difficult to get a jury to convict when the death penalty is at stake.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 21 hours ago

sound bites for the scared fox boomers. nyc doesnt have death penalty, but the arrest has been botched from the start.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So they basically admit it is about revenge, not justice? How dare someone of the working class attack someone clearly superior! We must punish this worthless creature to put them into their rightful place at the bottom of the taxpaying pyramid!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[–] VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He should have used a car to run him down.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If he had run him over with a 12 ton Chrysler F750 or whatever he'd be walking the streets today

[–] VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 14 points 1 day ago

exactly. If you want to kill someone, just use a car. Obligatory fuck cars!

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (25 children)

They’re sitting on a working class revolt powder keg and they just lit the match ….lol

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People aren't starving yet, but recent changes may change that soon.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Without social security, food stamps, labor protections of any kind, functioning schools, healthcare standards, housing security, environmental protections, veterans benefits, unions and with mass unemployment and a whole lot of guns…….things will deteriorate quickly

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

if the people (THAT'S YOU AND ME BTW) don't make them regret this, then the bullies won and this shit is all over but the generations of endless suffering under their eternal dystopia.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Being rich does not require you to be smart. That's part of the problem.

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[–] slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Don't worry, he is innocent.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 474 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson -- an innocent man and father of two young children

Innocent man my ass

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 367 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

19 and 16 are "young" children? Not to mention the fact that he was separated from his wife and his contact with them was limited. Unlike with hundreds, if not thousands, of parents he killed with his policy of denying coverage.

The obvious fellating of the ruling class by the mainstream media is annoying as fuck.

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 172 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Brian Thompson - unconvicted mass murderer and father of two grown children.

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[–] RainbowHedgehog@50501.chat 355 points 2 days ago (12 children)

The “pro-life” party really loves the death penalty…

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 224 points 2 days ago (5 children)

they need live babies to they can become dead soldiers

— George Carlin

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 196 points 2 days ago (4 children)

How to make a martyr in 180 days?

It's really crazy we are literally living in a new type of world.

The wealthy ARE the powerful, but the rest of us out number them to such grand extent that the only way they can remain wealthy is through fear and murder.

There is no war but class war.

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 130 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If everything is the death penalty we might as well do everything.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 day ago

The punishment for stealing from the king's garden is death.

The punishment for killing the king so everyone may eat from it is death.

Might as well go for the most effective use of your life.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 36 points 1 day ago (8 children)

So they want to make a martyr of him.

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[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 97 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He should run for congress because there are no consequences for crime if you get elected before the justice system has time to convict

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[–] danhab99@programming.dev 47 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Whenever I think of the Dylan Roof incident.

The death penalty isn't a punishment, who really learns from it, the criminal? It's a tool for society to remove what amounts to a defective person (not human, person). People are supposed to value the lives of other people by default. Any sustained deviation from this norm is a symptom of a person who cannot value life.

Dylan Roof was given 1000s of opportunities to demonstrate that he did actually value life but because of his defective nature there was no choose but to remove him.

"Life in prison" can be canceled/pardoned/changed, death cannot. That is why it's near impossible to make it happen and even if it does,, people spend the rest of their lives waiting for their "execution" (ftr Dylan is still alive at this time source).

Now in what possible world would you be able to convince a jury of random peers, or judges with their heads actually screwed on tight, that a sample size of one murder proves that a person is defective.

Genuine responses only:

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