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Fundamentally, I agree with you here, but on the way to getting there we are going to have to accept an ever-diminishing set of truly heinous crimes that merit execution until none do. That's just the nature of change here.
I'm certainly not losing any sleep over these guys. I hope we eventually get there, but fixing capital punishment for terrorists and mass murder is small potatoes compared to the outrages of the next four years.
That being said, Mangione being accused of terrorism sort of lays the fundamental flaw bare. When the government wants to kill someone, they will find a way to charge a capital crime for as long as they exist, so they must eventually be done away with.
Exactly. Mangione's crime should legally be no different than the many other first-degree murders that are committed all over the U.S. every day. Almost none of them get the death penalty for it. But they have found a way to kill him for it.
They will always find a way when there is a way.
...no? We could just... not execute them? Like we're doing now? They're already in prison, we could literally just keep doing that
There isn't the political will. Yeah it needs to be fixed. But we need to realize that even a lot of Democrats support capital punishment. It's going to take a long time. I agree but I'm being pragmatic. It's just not something enough people want to change.