Democrat’s move prevents these people from executions under future governors, after Christa Pike’s failed execution

Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, has commuted the death sentences of more than 500 people on the state’s death row on Thursday, a move that ensures they can never be executed under future administrations.

The Democrat’s mass commutation at the end of his term has converted all of the state’s death sentences to life without the possibility of parole, the largest clearing of any US death row in modern history.

The move comes after the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee sparked global outrage and renewed calls for a nationwide pause on capital punishment.

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    2 days ago

    If you are not opposed to the death penalty you are not civilized, and you are OK with principles that are contrary to democracy.

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        You wrote:

        I’m not necessarily opposed to the death penalty

        Didn’t read beyond that, because saying that, it’s unlikely you have anything valuable to say.

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          Didn’t read beyond that, it’s unlikely you have anything valuable to say.

          Wow. Its not often someone tells on themselves so clearly, but I appreciate that you did. I know exactly how much concern to give your posts now and in the future!

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          It depends on what you mean. We should execute Trump, most of the high ranking officials in his administration, and all billionaires. I’d probably agree with anything else you said about the death penalty though.

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                I disagree and that opinion is just as valid as yours

                No, it isn’t. Worldviews have consequences. The consequences of what you’re espousing are an increase in murders and victims of murders, as well as a glorification of violence and death. Your worldview reinforces public bloodlust and disincentivizes rehabilitation. It gives credence to a broken system that’s constantly hurting the innocent while enabling (not just ignoring but enabling) the guilty.

                Instead of crowing about how valid everyone else should think your opinion is, try having an opinion that’s more than a thin justification for state sanctioned murder.

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                  None of what you just said invalidates my opinion. It’s just you expounding on your own opinion.

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                    Instead of crowing about how valid everyone else should think your opinion is, try having an opinion that’s more than a thin justification for state sanctioned murder.

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            Nope, we should not execute Trump, while he absolutely deserve to die, and I’ll already have plans to celebrate when he is dead, we should not do the killing.

            There are several reasons for this:

            1. The state should never be in the business of killing it’s own citizens, never no matter how terrible the person is.
            2. It would turn him into a martyr and give his people a powerful symbol to rally behind, this will still happen regardless of how he dies, but actively killing him would make it way, way worse.
            3. It would be too easy of a punishment, it is far harsher for a person to be put in a prison like ADX Florence, and have to live in complete isolation than just killing him.
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            What context makes it make sense to want the death penalty banned only because they’re not using it to kill the people you want them to? I get the point, I just think it’s narcissistic and hypocritical.