Reply #61: Please stop acting as if your approach is ethical. It's not. It's revenge.

[TexasObserver]

The death penalty isn't about the people who are put to death. It's about us.

You can use all the stats you want, but they don't prove that the death penalty is the appropriate response to heinous crimes. All they prove is that terrible criminals do terrible things until they're stopped.

The death penalty is about one thing: REVENGE. Those who think the goal of law enforcement should be the death of guilty want revenge, not justice. Justice is removal from society. The death penalty? That's just another rightwing emotional issue to scam the working class.