ShinyLemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Unbecredible@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months ago

What things would you standardize globally if you were the Supreme Leader? All violations punishable by death.

message-square
message-square
113
fedilink
76
message-square

What things would you standardize globally if you were the Supreme Leader? All violations punishable by death.

Unbecredible@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months ago
message-square
113
fedilink
  • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    51
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    In a study released today, the National Academy of Sciences reports that at least 4.1 percent of defendants sentenced to death in the United States are innocent.

    So basically 1 in 20 inmates on death row are innocent, and people (mostly conservatives) are A-OK with that percentage of innocent people being subject to state-sanctioned murder in a very brutal way that’s far from painless. A dog being put down by a vet receives more humane treatment than a human being put down by the state.

    • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      That “at least 4%” bit makes that even worse. Just look at the List of miscarriage of justice cases on Wikipedia, it’s not not exhaustive and it’s huge, I cannot morally or ethically justify capital punishment on that alone, the whole state-sanctioned murder bit just makes it even more horrific.

      • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        deleted by creator

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml

asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !asklemmy@lemmy.ml

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it’s welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

  • !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
  • !fediverse@lemmy.ml
  • !selfhosted@lemmy.world

Looking for a community?

  • Lemmyverse: community search
  • sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
  • !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

Icon by @Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 452 users / day
  • 2.82K users / week
  • 6.97K users / month
  • 19.5K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 48K subscribers
  • 5.72K Posts
  • 269K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Evan@lemmy.ml
  • mekhos@lemmy.ml
  • tmpod@lemmy.pt
  • OrangeSlice@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.9
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org