Yesterday, Brian Dorsey was executed for a crime he committed in 2006. By all accounts, during his time in prison, he became remorseful for his actions and was a “model prisoner,” to the point that multiple corrections officers backed his petition for clemency.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/us/brian-dorsey-missouri-execution-tuesday/index.html

In general, the media is painting him as the victim of a justice system that fails to recognize rehabilitation. I find this idea disgusting. Brian Dorsey, in a drug-induced stupor, murdered the people who gave him shelter. He brutally ended the life of a woman and her husband, and (allegedly) sexually assaulted her corpse. There is an argument that he had ineffective legal representation, but that doesn’t negate the fact that he is guilty.

While I do believe that he could have been released or had his sentence converted to life in prison, and he could have potentially been a model citizen, this would have been a perversion of justice. Actions that someone takes after committing a barbaric act do not undo the damage that was done. Those two individuals are still dead, and he needed to face the ramifications for his actions.

Rehabilitation should not be an option for someone who committed crimes as depraved as he did. Quite frankly, a lethal injection was far less than what he deserved, given the horror he inflicted on others. If the punishment should fit the crime, then he was given far more leniency than was warranted.

  • franglais@lemm.ee
    22·
    9 months ago

    Baring any miracle advances in mental health treatment, there is only one way to guarantee that he doesn’t do the same thing again, and I support all normal people’s right to feel, and actually be safe, in their homes and communities.

      • franglais@lemm.ee
        11·
        9 months ago

        If that were certain, yes. But the prison costs a fortune, and the people in charge have a terrible habit of giving parole.

          • franglais@lemm.ee
            11·
            9 months ago

            Oh, I’m sure that depends on your locality, I reckon stonings in Saudi Arabia are pretty cheap 😉

            • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
              2·
              9 months ago

              You can’t have cheaper executions without removing safeguards which are supposed to stop innocent people from getting executed. But I have this strange feeling that doesn’t really matter to you :)

              • franglais@lemm.ee
                1·
                9 months ago

                When there is absolutely no doubt, that a person has raped, I have no problem with castration, when there is no doubt a person has murdered, i have no problem with thr death penalty. Perhaps we should send all the “rehabilitated” convicts to live next door to you? How would you feel?

                • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  As of right now, the US has many layers that are supposed to keep innocent people off death row, yet they still kill more than 4% innocent people. There is absolutely no way to save money on executions without increasing this number.

                  Since you’d like to kill people, maybe we should just execute you? How would you feel?

                  • franglais@lemm.ee
                    1·
                    9 months ago

                    Ultimately, I’m not interested in the financial element of protecting society, whatever the cost of assuring rapists and murders is money well spent, but this is off topic, going back to OP’s original question, yes murders deserve to die, I share an unpopular opinion, so be it.

            • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              9 months ago

              The death penalty is cheap in Saudi Arabia because they enact it against people who don’t deserve to die. Surely you aren’t advocating for murdering your countrymen for being gay or trans or something, right? Because that would be evil.