Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions.
  • Dkarma@lemmy.world
    416·
    6 months ago

    Execution is to keep the person away from the rest of everyone else permanently. Your straw man reasons are hilarious tho.

    • ImportedReality@programming.devEnglish
      102·
      6 months ago

      Life imprisonment does exactly the same thing, is cheaper, and doesn’t run the risk of potentially killing an innocent person

    • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
      5·
      6 months ago

      To date, 21 people have been exonerated off death row by DNA evidence. The acceptable number of innocent people executed is 0.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      4·
      6 months ago

      Execution is not preventative of the same person reoffending any more than imprisonment is.

      You may have missed that part.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      We didn’t execute the prisoners on Guantanamo, supposedly the most dangerous terrorists in the world.

      But we have to execute domestic criminals?