• no banana
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    1401 year ago

    I don’t think death sentences should be a thing.

    • JohnEdwa
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      1 year ago

      I almost agree, as there are only very few crimes, and in absolutely certain circumstances, where I think a death sentence would be appropriate. As an example, cases like Anders Breivik.

      • no banana
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        1 year ago

        Nah, he can rot in isolation. Death is just getting away with it, which is what he would’ve wanted.

      • President Camacho
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        141 year ago

        Not trying to excuse his actions but read the _Early life and reports of abuse _section.

        This guy is a product of a mentally ill mother who abused him. Imagine being 4 years old and your caregiver keeps telling you she wished you were dead. Not a recipe for a well balanced individual.

        My point is yes, his place is in prison. But if you want to prevent other acts of this kind, social and mental services need to get better. They clearly failed in this case, more than once.

      • @Ross_audio@lemmy.world
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        231 year ago

        Let’s set the sentence for executing an innocent man to, death.

        The first barrier to the death penalty is to make sure verdicts are right 100% of the time.

        After that you can begin the debate about **whether it’s moral at all.

        • Dojan
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          11 year ago

          Let’s set the sentence for executing an innocent man to, death.

          There’s no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

            • @MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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              11 year ago

              She didn’t get there by paying the employees of her business empire the share they deserve of the profits they generated for her. If she had, she wouldn’t be a billionaire.

              That doesn’t even touch on the issues of constant private jets around the world, owning multiple homes, etc.

        • @systemglitch@lemmy.world
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          You can’t be certain 100% of the time, so one has to accept there will be instances of injustice.

          Or perserve it for instances where it is 100% certain only (video evidence, tons of eyewitnesses). I don’t care which personally, but latter is preferred.

          What I don’t want is a drawn out affair where it costs more to execute them than to keep them alive.

          When people deserve to die, they should be killed with haste, so we can forget they ever existed and move on. I’m not a fan of the slow torturous rot of keeping them alive until they die of natural causes part of the justice system we have come to embrace in western society.

          To be fair, I’m focused more on other crimes than the one this article is about. But anything that would end up being the rest of a person’s life, I’m okay with just ending prematurely. I’m morally flexible in this regard.

      • @sepulcher@lemmy.ca
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        -91 year ago

        I agree, but not for financial crimes.

        She’s essentially being executed for screwing over, you guessed it, investors.

        That’s fucked up. I’d rather execute the investors.

        • @Zyrxil@lemmy.world
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          71 year ago

          It’s a bank not a hedge fund. The investors would be the regular people that made deposits- you know, the victims of the fraud. So your knee jerk reaction is “investors bad” without thinking about anything?