• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Sorry, no. Disagree. There should not be exceptions to basic human rights no matter how terrible those people are. We have no problem keeping other people just as bad in federal supermax prison for life, and, in fact, that’s where everyone else who got their sentences commuted will be going.

    No state should have the power of life and death over its citizenry and exceptions to rules are not a good idea.

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      5 months ago

      If these guys got shot mid crime by cops nobody would have bat an eye. These guys are legitimate monsters, there is zero room for doubt of their guilt, and there is zero benefit to society keeping them alive.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      No state should have the power of life and death over its citizenry and exceptions to rules are not a good idea.

      That’s part of the definition of a state: monopoly over organized violence. Even in states where the death penalty is abolished the state still reserves the power to use the military to put down uprisings and that sort of thing. Plus in pretty much all states the officers of the state (the police) have the power to use lethal force. Without that power an outside group could take over by attacking the police.