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gremlin-pattie · 2 years ago

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Ok but like actually DNI if you support the death penalty. Yes there are people who deserve to die for their crimes. No there isn’t a court in existence that should be given the power to decide who those people are

#THIS IS THE THING #even if you think some people deserve death (which is debatable) THE GOVERNMENT does not need that power #we KNOW that the US government disproportionately targets POC mentally ill people queer people etc #and that a lot of people in prison were arrested for shit they didn’t do #or they are punished harshly for minor crimes #so why would you want that government to have the ability to legally murder people?#individual violence is bad but giving a system the power to kill people is very dangerous #also the whole idea that punishment is the only/correct response to wrongdoing is flawed #most people commit MORE crimes after being imprisoned than they would have if they didn’t go to prison #and prison doesn’t mitigate harm. the violence just happens within the prisons rather than outside of them #there are tons of studies showing that prisons increase crime and do nothing to rehabilitate people. in fact they make their situatio worse #and most people commit crimes out of a feeling of necessity not because they want to #a real solution would address systemic inequalities that lead people to do things like stealing and becoming involved in violence #anyway #death penalty #prison industrial complex #prison abolition #restorative justice

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