#stop the death penalty

[valentinsylve]

Donald Trump executed more people during his first term as president than all of the past 10 administrations combined, and he has promised to expand the use of the death penalty even more in his second. We must take action immediately before he is sworn into office. The federal death penalty system is plagued by systemic flaws – racial bias, errors in sentencing, and wasted resources. Furthermore, evidence has consistently shown that capital punishment does not deter crime or make us safer. The death penalty instead perpetuates injustice – particularly for Black, Brown, and economically disadvantaged people, who are most vulnerable to wrongful convictions and executions. Continuing the federal death penalty in this country only deepens the systemic inequalities that already infect our criminal legal system.

As a growing number of Americans across the political and faith spectrum urge an end to this outdated and inhumane practice, President Biden has the power to cement a legacy of compassion and justice by commuting all federal death sentences before he leaves the Oval Office. This decision would fulfill his campaign promise to act on the death penalty and uphold his commitment to racial justice and community safety, and save lives. Urge President Biden to commute all federal death sentences before his time as president ends.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

From @theinnocenceproject:

This is it. We only have 48 HOURS to stop Missouri from executing #MarcellusWilliams, an innocent man.⁠

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Every hour, every minute, every second is critical right now. And even though @GovParsonMO's office is closed today, we can’t let a single moment go by where we’re not urging him to take action. So today, we’re asking you to SHARE Marcellus’ story far and wide by creating your own post about him using the social media toolkit at the link in our bio, and include a call to action to sign our petition and call @GovParsonMO at 417-373-3400. ⁠

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It is not too late for Gov. Parson to ensure that Missouri does not take an innocent man’s life.⁠

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[yardsards]

hot take but you all NEED to stop telling people to kill themselves.

yes, even *those* people. i don't care if you're talking to some monster who puts live puppies into a wood chipper for fun, don't say that shit.

because mx. puppychipper isn't gonna be affected by your words.

but you know who might be affected? some innocent third party reading the words you said on a public website.

because telling people to kill themselves says "suicide is a punishment for being a bad person. bad people, upon realizing they're bad, should simply commit suicide instead of working to atone for their actions."

and that is NOT a message you wanna be normalizing to anyone, but ESPECIALLY people with depression (who, let's be real, make up a higher than average chunk of this site's userbase). whose mental illness is already telling them that 1: they're an inherently terrible worthless person no matter what they do 2: death is an appealing option.

is reading "kill yourself" once or twice gonna make them do it? nah, probably not. but reading it multiple times a day every day is gonna make their mental health worse. it's probably not good for your mental health to be saying that kind of thing, either.

just knock that shit off. the world is already so hostile to people with mental illness, and managing mental illness and unlearning unhealthy thought patterns is already so difficult. you don't need to be out here making it worse.

[catboybiologist]

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[bookwyrminspiration]

I imagine the only reason Vespera wasn’t sentenced to eternal sedation was plot convenience. what’s even the point of having a pseudo death penalty if they won’t even sentence their worst criminal in history to it?

[inariedwards]

Please sign the petition to ask the governor of Oklahoma to stop the execution of Emmanuel Littlejohn.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

strongly dislike the hyperbolic violence of a punitive justice system that seems to be how the internet responds to any bad thing because. the implications of being like "the person who cut down this tree should be tortured to death/put through a wood chipper/hanged/locked up forever"... do you really think that would help? do you think a tree, however special, is worth more than a human life? do you think an act like this negates the possibility of that person ever doing anything good and contributing to the world? do you think it is your right to declare somebody irredeemable?

you're being hyperbolic, i hope, but the underlying mindset of "bad thing = physically hurt this person and take away their future" could use some interrogating, actually! that's not an effective way of dealing with things! it's not going to put the tree back up, it's not going to help the environment, it's only going to cause additional harm. and that is the thing that gets me, how everything always seems to be about PUNISHMENT and hurting wrongdoers and not about minimising harm, not about reducing future damage, not about actual, real justice that might put some goddamn good into this world

this is ESPECIALLY true for crimes that, while shocking and cruel, don't actually physically harm any human beings. like cutting down a special tree. our response to a bad thing should not be to add more, worse things to the world, to be honest. and i am concerned that the tone of these jokes/hyperbolic remarks normalises a mindset and an approach to justice that should not, in fact, be normalised

[jesseleelazyblog]

Unethical Executions in April

Micheal Smith is being executed in Alabama despite having an intellectual disability that would disqualify him from the death penalty in any other state. The only reason he is still being executed is because of a few confusing technicalities in Oklahoma law.

Petitions Here:

Letter Writing Campaigns for oklahoma residents here:

Missouri is slated to execute Brian Dorsey despite his claims of ineffective counsel and the fact that he is picture of remorse and rehabilitation: he turned himself over to the police and pled guilty, has had a flawless prison record, currently resides in the honor ward while working as a prison barber (a highly coveted job only given to trust worthy inmates), and has about 60 prison staff members advocating for the commutation of his sentence.

Petitions Here:

Letter Writing Campaigns and other actions for Missouri Residents here:

https://www.archstl.org/missouri-bishops-others-request-clemency-for-brian-dorsey-first-inmate-to-be-executed-this-year-9478

[oodlenoodleroodle]

President Biden has a chance to prevent another execution-spree by commuting all of the federal and military death sentences before he leaves office.  

The White House phone lines are open Tuesday - Thursday from 11am to 3pm.  Please call the President at 202-456-1111 or 202-456-1414 and ask him to "Commute all federal and military death sentences now, and demolish the death house at the federal prison at Terre Haute."

[personal-blog243]

Also pay attention to the 3 people he didn’t pardon and it does almost make sense.

[brucewaynehater101]

Arkham Asylum pisses me off. I get so unbelievable angry thinking about how their legal system has nothing to do with how America's legal system is supposed to work (though Gotham is extremely corrupt... perhaps it's just a reflection of further corruption in their legal system?).

For those of y'all who haven't studied this, most of the folks who end up in Arkham Asylum would've just gone to Blackgate. Having a mental illness does not equate an insanity plea. Insanity is a legal term, not a mental health term.

By law, insanity is the defendant's inability to understand what they were doing, the consequences of what they were doing, or what is right and wrong due to a mental illness or disability at the time of the crime.

Therefore, the Joker knows exactly what he is doing, what the effects of his actions are, and that they are considered wrong in the eyes of the law. He is not, by legal terms, insane. Posion Ivy definitely wouldn't be in Arkham as well as a ton of other rogues.

Am I saying that they shouldn't go to a mental health facility to assist any mental illnesses they may have? No. Our legal system is messed up and does not focus on rehabilitation. I could get into all of that, but we're arguing fictional legal systems based on real-life systems.

It's just incredibly weird and off-putting that they base Gotham on America's legal system but fail to account how the insanity plea works.

I do like how they highlight mistreatment in places such as Arkham Asylum and Blackgate (similar to how prisoners and patients of mental health facilities get treated in real-life American settings).

Does any media of DC discuss why there's such blatant disregard for the legal system they base their fictional legal system on?

[asterdeer]

better ending for "bondage and beta male sexuality": right when britta is feeling down on herself for losing her friends and her activism in one night, abed texts her and tells her that hickey's unlawfully detained him with handcuffs and she brightens up and goes immediately to kill hickey with her bare hands while unwittingly doing a kickpuncher quote about justice or whatever

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

Catholics I know stop committing heresy 2024 challenge (impossible)

[mikakuna]

batman really just be saying shit. "killing the joker will make you the same as him"

like oh yes of course. you're definitely on par with a man who's killed thousands of innocents because you killed one person. bitch please. you're telling me bruce being a pussy enabler is why thousands of people die at the hands of one person? he should just go to therapy after killing the joker if it's that big of a deal. if you're gonna take on a role as serious and God-like as Batman/hero, you need to accept that you have to do immoral and messed up things. there's no reason to really make batman so strictly Moral if the supervillains he fights really show no shame in mass murdering and torturing innocents- innocents in a city that he swears is his and his to protect.

in a universe like dc where supervillains (+people who work with chemicals that aren't usable in the real world) exist and absolutely cannot be tied down in prison, killing is likely one of the only ways to keep cities safe. like sorry but batman has to kill the joker, a mass murderer, if he wants gotham to become a safer place. it's that or create an indestructible prison that no villains can escape from no matter what. which surprisingly hasn't been made yet, from what i know, despite all the amazing tech bruce has and can afford