A good reason to oppose the death penalty is that its biggest proponents think it's *especially* important to execute the people who might be innocent.
Wait wat?
they seem to think that tacitly admitting that there's a real risk of innocent people getting executed is worse than executing innocent people.
Maybe I overread into some of the court chumminess, but I feel like the first time my colleague shrugs and says "eh whatever" on a death penalty class is the last time I ever interact with them without calling them a piece of shit. Don't know how the liberals do it, lawyers are built different
So fucking depressing
You fundamentally have no respect for the constitution if care so much about a bad faith argument about the second while you refuse to even read the eighth
Especially if they’re Black.
I mean, just think about the caseload needed to actually address the improperly convicted. The legal system already takes years to finally ignore the pleas of the innocent before death.
Biden could commute every federal death sentence tomorrow and turn the execution chamber in Terre Haute to rubble so that a future Congress and president would need to rebuild it and I judge him harshly for not doing so.
It brings out the worst in people