• Garibaldee@lemm.eeOP
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    11 hours ago

    Absolutely, he did pardon the vast majority of them, but the deaths of the remaining are on his hands, especially for someone who “doesn’t believe in the death penalty”. I haven’t looked into the specifics of the 3 people he didn’t pardon, but no matter what they did life in prison makes more sense than executing them in the richest country on the planet.

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      10 hours ago

      Two Mass murdering Nazis and the Boston Bomber. I’m not really for the death penalty either, I am however for hanging Nazis. So you know win some lose some

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        10 hours ago

        I still wouldn’t advocate for executing them, obviously they should not be let back into society, but I really don’t see the point in killing them, it doesn’t change what they did, but as human beings they should at least have the right to live even though they denied that from other people.

        I think it just feels worse in this hyper-capitalistic society, that everyone else is out working while they are “taken care of” by the state, but I think the better answer to that would be to create a society that isn’t so dire, that it doesn’t seem like prisoners are getting free handouts, as opposed to just killing the prisoners, as “it isn’t fair they get to live off the taxes of their victims”.

        I probably wouldn’t go to a protest of their execution, I probably also wouldn’t protest people killing CEOs, just in terms of the operations of a state, I don’t think corporal punishment is ever worth it currently.