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In reply to the discussion: Charleston church shooter making appellate arguments [View all]marble falls
(57,010 posts)... but we do have courts to redress that.
We don't like the way the GOP whizzes past the law and the way to correct that is to not act like them. We can beat them. We are beating them and we need to keep attention on them.
But it won't take and doen't need flipping a switch.
I think about it every single time some criminal has pushed a crime into the truly and solidly bizarre outrage, and in the end I recognize that the death penalty is incapable of fair and equal imposition based on reason, having nothing to do with stoked emotions.
My next fear is that every execution makes it easier to execute innocent people, particularly PoC.
Plus I do not want to give them any martyrs. I want him to be what he is: a garden variety racist criminal. I don't want him a hero, I want everyone to how pathetic he really and truly is.