• Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    In addition to what the other guys said, it’s a common practice for death row inmates in the US to sit in prison for years, and sometimes decades, before they get put down. The reasoning to my understanding is that you can’t exonerate a dead man. They give plenty of time for appeals and additional evidence as a due course of justice for a fair trail as preserved by the 6th ammendment.

    • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      They give plenty of time for appeals and additional evidence as a due course of justice for a fair trail as preserved by the 6th ammendment.

      michael-laugh

      that’s the lie we tell children but if you figure out the false conviction rate and do the math, the amerikkka executes innocent people and doesn’t give a shit.

        • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          11 months ago

          The part you’re being criticised for is the part where you gargle the boot over the concept that people get a fair trial and “due course of justice” when at least 4% of people are falsely convicted and sentenced to death.

          You’re absolutely out of your mind if you think the system is fair when nearly a minimum of 1 in 20 people sentence to death by it shouldn’t be there.

          You are an extremely propagandised person living in the most propagandised nation on earth, you should do something about this. You have completely and totally internalised the national propaganda to the point of regurgitating it uncritically like you’re a fucking school text book. It is exactly what we mean when we say americans have a civil religion.

          amerikkka nato-cool