Outgoing president decided to spare 37 condemned prisoners from the death chamber – but not three others
  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    we are going to have to accept an ever-diminishing set of truly heinous crimes that merit execution until none do

    …no? We could just… not execute them? Like we’re doing now? They’re already in prison, we could literally just keep doing that

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      There isn’t the political will. Yeah it needs to be fixed. But we need to realize that even a lot of Democrats support capital punishment. It’s going to take a long time. I agree but I’m being pragmatic. It’s just not something enough people want to change.