• Trump Opioid Crisis Plan Includes Death Penalty for Drug Dealers
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i thought the whole point of western civilization was none of the "barbaric practices" of the "less developed world"
It is, but Trump doesn't like how China and Iran consistently beat him on the execution leaderboard and needs to get his high score up.
you joke but i feel like its probably all a game to him
Honestly the election of Donald Trump in general is a pretty good indication that something has gone terribly wrong, and hopefully we can look back on this in 5 years and laugh about how crazy it was.
My absolute hatred of the death penalty might bias me here, but there's really no way to support this. The death penalty should be abolished everywhere, not introduced for pettier and pettier crimes. I think there's a genuine moral problem with people who advocate for an expansion of the death penalty. It's a punishment that disproportionately impacts minorities and the lower class. It leads to gross, irreversible miscarriages of justice that are national embarassments, and on a cold, capitalist level, they're really fucking expensive; it's cheaper to jail somebody for life than to execute them. Like everything that republicans do, it's easier to kill somebody than address the actual problem.
that's if in 5 years there's not something equally as terrible or trump somehow wins 2020
yeah let's just have government-sanctioned death squads like the Philippines, can't go wrong there
This is the worst possible argument against the death penalty.
That is assuming they're caught. Of course if this would happen it would only weaken our already shattered healthcare system.
The Death Penalty is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, but the biggest one is simply that our justice system is not perfect. Even if it were a deserving punishment for those who have committed some "ultimate evil", our system does not 100% accurately detect fault. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_inmates
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