• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Minnesota doesn’t have a death penalty. Unless he’s brought up under the right federal charges we’ll be paying for this piece of excrement to rot in prison.

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            As someone who’s anti death penalty for any case, I’d prefer we waste money on incarcerating people if we must, rather than risk killing the wrong person. People have made entire careers out of justifying why an (usually) innocent person has to die, using a lot of junk science (bite mark, hair, thread analysis, a lot of CSI stuff is absolute bullshit or at least no better than 50/50).

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              The death penalty is nothing more than “mob justice” if you ask me. I still think pedophiles like some of our politicians should get the guillotine because they make me sick, but hell even a murderer I wouldn’t want death penalty for.

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                Pedophilie doesn’t inherently equal child predator. People who are attracted to children should be able to get help so they don’t become a child predator.

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                Still the same thing. While you may rightly claim mass murder/terrorism is worse than singular murder, the same logic applies. Why should we waste time and process on this vile person, and what if we made a mistake?

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                  Have the death penalty, but only if the lead prosecutor goes down with them and can only ever be involved in one at a time (ie they can do another if the one is appealed and stopped). Prosecutor doesn’t have to be in jail while they wait, but their lives end simultaneously and under identical conditions.

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    Regardless of what this case is about, I think it’s wrong to offer plea deals that negotiate the sentence below the death penalty.
    Even if I’m 100% innocent, I’m gonna take the plea deal instead of risking my life in court.
    If there are crimes so serious that they warrant the death penalty, there should be a trial. And if we’re okay with letting this person live, why did we consider taking their life in the first place? It’s a very coercive way to do “justice”. Admit to the crime or else we might kill you.

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      Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think I would valueblife without parole over a death sentence

      If your remaining life is going to be nothing but prison, why does it matter if it’s a couple years or couple decades?

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      That an argument against plea deals in general. Prosecutors regularly throw more extreme charges into the mix to scare defendants into taking a plea. Whether the choice is death or life in prison or 10 vs 3 years, the underlying corruption of the defendant’s decision making is still there.

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      Plea deals are disturbingly common, too. Like 90+% of serious crimes. Prosecutors seem scared to actually do their jobs.

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        Because with the amount of people that get arrested, they know the entire system would grind to a halt if everyone actually had the means to take their case to court.

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        It’s not so much that they’re scared.

        It’s more that they’ve found the “high conviction rate regardless of guilt and therefore easy reelection and campaign donations” cheat code.

        And that they haven’t been stopped from using it to pervert the “justice” system beyond any semblance of fairness or, well, justice.

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    So I guess this “man” must be white because political motivated murder is a shoe in for terrorism charges

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    You MUST understand he’s a GOOD Person who had a BAD day!

    -People who want to Give Luigi the DEATH Penalty!