• Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Two year reprieve meaning in two years they still stretch his neck or give him the Ol Yeller treatment or whatever?

    Thats a long time to think about whats coming, frankly. If theyre going to end his life just fucking do it already. My dislike of the death penalty is tempered a hair by the fact that this jackwagon is of the bourgeois class but two years just seems like a needless holiday. Either do it or dont.

    • 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.