The death penalty is more expensive, it occasionally kills wrongly convicted people, and there is no credible evidence that shows it deters crime.
I’d rather spend that tax money on potholes. This is dumb.
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It's cruel though, and killing people makes small men feel big.
I can see this being morphed into immediate executions against dissidents or undesirables.
Bingo.
Well he's already willing to execute suspected drug smugglers without trial
I think everything you listed are features, not bugs, to this regime.
Sometimes? About 50% of executions were of innocent people
It only is more expensive because of the appeals process... Something tells me this administration won't give them rights.
Remember Pam, no one was entirely safe from Hitler's purges or suspicions, regardless of their past loyalties. History repeats, and if you happen to misstep, Trump could find his own version of "The night of the long knives"
All these alleged Christians but Jesus be like, "uhh....?"
No no no don't you know it's John 316 that says "and Jesus said unto Paul "Kill all of your enemies and take your own vengeance here on earth. Empathy isn't real, fuck the poor."
Aaah that's the Jesus I love 👊😍
They’re gearing up to jail and murder dissidents.
Isn't high treason a death penalty too? Trump better watch it 🤣
No anything he does as President is immune from prosecution, his BFFs in the SC said so!
The way he always somehow escapes the net our best hope is death by cheeseburger.
The veil isn't just thin, it's also transparent.
The dots are so close they’re touching, yet so many people refuse to connect them.
That way they can kill, uh, I mean silence the next Epstein because a court said so.
And all those antifa people...
The party of pro life?