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Holy fuck, that poor woman.. I bet she'd take life in prison if it brought her daughter back. That hurts me to the core.
Execution of innocent people is (and always has been) the entirely predictable, inevitable, and probably unavoidable result of capital punishment. There is no getting around the fact that, as long as the state executes prisoners, innocent people will be executed and "the state", i.e. taxpayers, will pay more for it than they ever would have imprisoning the convicted for life.
We should only executing people who have incontrovertible evidence against them or who freely admit to the crime and are of sound mind.
There will ALWAYS be mistakes, bias, and corruption. There is no such thing as incontrovertible evidence. And even if there was some fantastical magical way to know absolute truth, that is still a pretty poor justification for more murder.
Naw, no execution.
I bet she still gets executed despite the proceeding judge's opinion. It happened already in Missouri this year. The prosecuting attorney hit a potential juror during the jury selection because he was a young black male. There was contamination of evidence. The governor overturned the previous governors stay of execution. And in the end an innocent man was executed anyway.
Hell, just yesterday the Texas Supreme Court overruled bipartisan legislators overturning an innocent man's execution.
I swear there are people working in the system that see this as sport. They don't actually care what the crime is or who it is, they just want to know that someone is going to be killed.
This is Texas so I would not count on it being overturned.
$10 says most ~~death penalty~~ state-sanctioned murder proponents would've proposed before 2022 (or even just before this verdict) that she was a clear-cut example of why it's necessary because what kind of monster would definitely 100% verifiably beat their child to death? Fucking repugnant.
This seems to be a constant occurrence.
It's Texas, they've just been waiting to do it on the right week so they have something to distract from their worse politics
And the prosecutors will be disbarred and charged, yes? It's pathetic that the former DA isn't even named. So the system is still protecting the actual criminals.
They should serve 16 years, at a minimum, but 25-30 is fine.
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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