Luigi shouldn't be in jail at all. He was just looking out for several million of his friends.
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Death penalty for a murder of a single persons seems harsh. I’m anti death penalty 100% of the time, though.
They want the death penalty in case other Americans get ideas. They want to make an example out of him.
It's a thin line between making an example or making a martyr of him, so the case will likely perpetually linger in limbo.
Even people who are okay with the death penalty in a moral sense should be against it for logical reasons. Once you factor in the cost of the appeals system, the cost of the drugs themselves, the cost of paying out people or families when the drugs dont work as theyre supposed to, and the cost of keeping people in prison on death row, it is infinitely more expensive than just putting someone in prison for life.
As a society, not to mention as taxpayers, we pay a huge premium to let the state exact barbaric revenge on people
I oppose the death penalty. No one has the right to take a single life, let alone the 40,000 people that Brian Robert Thompson murdered in cold blood.
I can support the idea of a death penalty when someone kills multiple people and there's good evidence.
However I can never support the implementation of the death penalty as I believe the state should never have the right tl execute its own citizens. And I believe it cannot be trusted with that authority
I used to be ok with it in certain circumstances, until I found out how many innocent people get convicted and how many people put to death were exonerated later. I'm against the entire prison system now though. It's modern slavery and the state shouldn't be trusted with that kind of power.
I'm okay with the death penalty in cases like treason or insurrection.
When it's clear that they committed the crimes.
In broad daylight.
For everyone to see.
On live television.
With absolutely no doubt that they are guilty.
You want this administration being the arbiter of what is treason?
Some governments deserve to be treasoned or insurrected.
Almost all
good news, donald trump just banned anti fascism. one step closer to your glorious dream.
i want to say i'm a civilized, evolved person. then some people i wish would get the ol' Robert-François Damiens. people have inconsistencies, like good corn muffin batter. fuck i should bake some muffins.
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Mansions saved thousands of lives and more for future generations. Those poor people being denied health…
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He should be released and compensated for the time he spent behind bars. He is innocent.
We need a new US monument/shrine where we can pilgrimage to and make an offering to the god of incompetence (which one is that again?) for smiling kindly upon us. It feels wrong to be relying so solely on the power of one god here without offering up any kind of gift in thanks.
Is it just me, or do all the new news pics of Luigi look less... Pro-Luigi?
Great work Trump! … eww… that felt weird.
Where are all the "jury nullification" comments?
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The judge ordered the DOJ prosecutors to file a response by Oct. 3 that included “a sworn declaration from a person of suitable authority…that explains to the Court how these violations occurred, despite the Court’s April 25 Order, and what steps are being taken to ensure that no future violations occur.”
The order further required the prosecutors “to advise the Deputy Attorney General, for dissemination within the Department as appropriate, that future violations may result in sanctions, which could include personal financial penalties, contempt of court findings, or relief specific to the prosecution of this matter,” and to include “confirmation that this message has been conveyed to the Deputy Attorney General” in the sworn declaration due Oct. 3.
Garnett concluded by stating that she “will consider” the statements by DOJ employees cited in the defense letter as part of the defense’s motion to strike the death penalty, spelling out a potentially very real consequence for a Trump administration that has aggressively agitated for severe consequences for Thompson’s murder.
Trump's first extrajudicial killing coming?
Who am I kidding, it's not the first lol
Wouldn't even be the first this week
I’m a fan of barely-restrained snark. That closing sentence is a great example.