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Missouri proceeding w/ execution despite new DNA results clearing him (up: stayed)
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Angelus Errare
Banned
Agreed, but I'm sure someone will make an argument for it anyway. There's a defense force for everything
IamDodongo
Member
One more example of why the death penalty is archaic and wrong.
Yea just tried to call and mailbox is full. Ill be spamming the number every day and hopefully enough people call about this. Theres less than a week left to save this mans life.
This hits close to home as my brother was charged, tried, convicted and sentenced to natural life without the possibility of parole for a crime he didnt commit. He was 19. Luckily, after 9 years of countless prison visits, $$$$$$, court dates, appeals and family tears, our lawyer got the charges dismissed and he was released.
minor effort
Banned
Another example of why the death penalty is an affront to human decency and justice.
Abolish the death penalty. Full stop. No excuses.
Abolish the death penalty. Full stop. No excuses.
xcharles718
Member
Not racism.
I'll call again in the morning.
Has anyone has any luck finding options emigrating elsewhere? I don't qualify for Canada's Express Entry (not enough professional experience and/or money, being just out of college n' all).
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I'll call again in the morning.
Has anyone has any luck finding options emigrating elsewhere? I don't qualify for Canada's Express Entry (not enough professional experience and/or money, being just out of college n' all).
I looked at immigrating to New Zealand a while back for separate reasons. Do you have a pristine record and happen to, uh, work in an agricultural field?
Missouri was never good to begin with.
AmayaPapaya
Banned
Do Missouri Republicans care, though? We already saw the worst of the worst, this week. I'm not putting anything behind these people.
Vital Tundra
Member
I just... Don't get how a human being could just deny this man is innocent... Its your job and you just proceed without a word. Im disgusted, and sick. This country is so fucked.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Why would they care exactly, they're getting rid of a black person.
The Last Wizard
Member
Now imagine if this was a white man :/
They dont. What the last ten years has taught us is that the members of GOP, both their voters and their reps are the worst people in Western Civilization. All of them are rascist, self centered and evil human beings who care for nothing but money and themselves. Watching an innocent black man die will make most of them smile.
ShironRedshift
Member
Yeah, this goes all the way back to Missouri's founding:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise
With the death penalty and an imperfect, vindictive justice system it's inevitable no matter the race. Rick Perry refused to grant a stay to this guy in 2004 after new evidence was introduced, another tragedy.
Cameron Todd Willingham's ghost won't stop haunting Rick Perry
Something to remember about Missouri: there was huge confederate presence here, and they were only stopped from seceding by virtue of St. Louis being the main hub for the Union's western forces. As it was, there was some of the nastiest and most horrifying guerilla warfare of the Civil War in our rural areas.
Next time the usual chucklefucks here in the UK say to bring back the death penalty, I'm citing this.
A genuinely evil case. An innocent man is going to die because reasons. Reasons we can't even have access to. That is not justice.
A genuinely evil case. An innocent man is going to die because reasons. Reasons we can't even have access to. That is not justice.
Well, Brandon Dassey is still in jail and that kid definitely didn't have shit to do with that murder.
But this does look racially motivated. Could also be a situation if the state not wanting to admit they were wrong. They'd be sued for sure. Or both.
Frozenprince
Banned
If he's executed everybody involved in this travesty of Justice should be in line behind him.
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
dragonelite
Member
Dam how predictable that the innocent man is a black person. And they still want to take his live with all the evidence clearing him of the crime.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
The American justice system; where murderers can legally execute the innocent, additionally protected by the system that permits them such power.
Matrix XII
Member
Absolutely disgraceful 😔
Wafflecakes
Member
Holy shit that sounds fucked up.
excelsiorlef
Member
What the flying fuck.
Jesus, they also used a "jailhouse informant." Seems like an easy way to get someone to lie. Just cut a few years off a sentence and BAM, they'll tell any lie.
tearsintherain
Member
i don't really understand how the MO supreme court allowed this
and yeah I am totally against the death penalty, its hell on earth for the victims families having to go to court every time there is an appeal and they have to relive the horror, it costs an insane amount of money to house these people in special wings and handle decades of appeals, and of course the obvious "what if we execute an innocent person".
Much rather let the guilty rot in jail for the rest of their lives, and when a mistake is made at least we can let the person live free for whatever remains of their life, as fucked up as their life got because someone didn't do their job right.
and yeah I am totally against the death penalty, its hell on earth for the victims families having to go to court every time there is an appeal and they have to relive the horror, it costs an insane amount of money to house these people in special wings and handle decades of appeals, and of course the obvious "what if we execute an innocent person".
Much rather let the guilty rot in jail for the rest of their lives, and when a mistake is made at least we can let the person live free for whatever remains of their life, as fucked up as their life got because someone didn't do their job right.
Sutton Dagger
Member
Further proof that the death penalty is an immoral practice.
Randolph Freelander
Member
This wouldn't be an execution, this would be cold blooded murder.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Can't they be sued by family if he gets executed anyway?
Jmanunknown
Member
The american justice system is a joke and will continue to be a joke. I bet more people would be upset that a confederate statue was torn down or an NFL player took a knee during the national anthem then if this man who is obviously innocent of the crime he is in jail for was executed.
Tinfoilhatsron
Banned
I feel legitimately sick.
Nothing else to add at this point.
The kind of chucklefucks who say that also tend to be quite racist, so I don't think they'll care.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
What a travesty. The fuck is going on over there...
Ploid 3.0
Member
Business as usual.
Speaking of, I wonder who is making money on this. I get they may want a scapegoat for the family, this may help with closure, or want this case closed, but with clear evidence and the murder still scheduled it just seems money has to be involved somehow. How will the murder happen? Will they use chemicals they have expiring in their dungeon somewhere? Do they have a contract that requires them to kill someone every so often or the price of the killing supplies go up? Sort of like private prisons needing their cells filled at any cost?
ErasureAcer
Banned
No wonder we're friends with the Saudis.
Death Penalty has always been a joke. This nation is sick.
Death Penalty has always been a joke. This nation is sick.
Monocle
Member
A sobering reminder that state-sanctioned revenge was never about justice to begin with. People cultivate stories to give themselves a sense of security and moral superiority, and they wet the soil with human blood.
"Criminals are bad and broken people who are nothing like me."
"Executions deter crime."
"He wouldn't be in that position unless he did something wrong."
"You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs."
To some death penalty supporters, it doesn't matter if he's innocent because his guilt isn't the point. People have to die to give weight to their fiction.
"Criminals are bad and broken people who are nothing like me."
"Executions deter crime."
"He wouldn't be in that position unless he did something wrong."
"You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs."
To some death penalty supporters, it doesn't matter if he's innocent because his guilt isn't the point. People have to die to give weight to their fiction.
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
Of course he's black. Of course.
Monocle
Member
How did you guess? Are you a fortune teller? Can you assist me with an augury?
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
what the hell.... if they don't cancel it, i really hope i huge mob will come and try to prevent it from happening (i know, we're not in a movie, but still....)
this is freaking infuriating! There's fucking proof, what's their excuse? Did they actually say anything? (not that it matters, i just want to hear their fucking twisted logic)
this is freaking infuriating! There's fucking proof, what's their excuse? Did they actually say anything? (not that it matters, i just want to hear their fucking twisted logic)
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