I'm new here but It's nice to just ban users that are clearly bigoted. I have lost all need to sway anyone ready to fight over basic human rights. in fact human rights are not included in their vocab. I know this effort might be in vain but maybe I'll see less hate and troll bait.

however a state should never be the one to dish it out. no state should.

I think “worse than death” is their motto on the license plates in Tennessee.

She is being kept largely in solitary confinement, she said, “away from other people and the human connections that mean so much to me”.

Such isolation was its own form of pain, she said, given that she spent the first 28 years on death row in solitary confinement.

She was 18 at the time of the murder. Most people are hardly the same person that they were that much of their life ago.

She was neglected by alcoholic parents,[12] and her attorneys said she was exposed to alcohol in the womb.[13] She was raped as a toddler and again at ages 11 and 17.[14][15] She attempted suicide at the age of 12 and in 1991 she was sent to a Juvenile Evaluation Center in Swannanoa, North Carolina

Yikes.

At 18 I probably would've done some equally fucked up shit. Murdering people for what they did before their brains finished developing is not only a waste of money but it gives the government absolute control over who lives and dies when I don't even trust the government to fill potholes correctly.

Not to mention the conditions leading up to this could have been partially the fault of the state as well. Not saying people don't have accountability for their own actions, but in the United States our mental health care is abysmal. So realistically, it's a failure of the state coming and going. Yet all these groups are ready and willing to worship the state.

They’re called Americans and it’s why the American penal system is about punishment rather than rehabilitation.

Oh and don’t forget the for profit motive of the American penal system too. How else will they maintain slavery and turn locking humans in cages into a profitable business.

The answer is to abolish the death penalty, not to expedite the process with bullets. What the hell is wrong with you?