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- history@mander.xyz
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To quote a friend of mine, “People who support the death penalty trust the government far more than I do.”
But I don’t think he’s entirely right. Many people who support the death penalty simply do not care if occasionally some innocent person gets killed and the actual murderer runs free. They feel it’s a net gain overall so it’s worth it.
I volunteer anyone with that opinion to be the next person executed. And anytime who thinks people dying from unnecessary gun violence is an acceptable loss to keep the 2nd Amendment can be next in line after Charlie Kirk.
They trust the government enough to believe it will never be them or their loved one
A mentality kinda like “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some
gun deathswrongful executions every single year so that we can have theSecond Amendmentsome dead murderers”
Some history that has been floating around in oral tradition. It’s well known in some circles and I knew a witness so was able to confirm.
Back a few decades ago, there was an inmate on death row in Texas talking to his sister. The phone call was by law monitored, but inadmissible in court, and this is why it’s known.
On the phone, the guy asked his sister to confess to the murder he was going to die for. His sister refused to confess, saying she had a family to think about. But she, according to herself in that phone call to him, was the one who killed her husband.
After the phone call, an astonished officer asked him why he never mentioned his sister in the court cases.
He replied he had done enough bad things and was paying the price for those instead.
Texas has put a lot of people to death who were innocent of the crimes, and the above story might not be normal because often the inmates were not murderers or bad people.
If you’re in the US, consider reading the Innocence Project’s [page on Robert Roberson](Robert Roberson), a man who is scheduled to be executed on the 16th October, despite being innocent. I know that resisting in this manner may feel pointless in the current climate, but the Innocence Project has helped free more than 250 people from prison. We don’t need to be able to exonerate Roberson at this stage, just to buy more time so that people can keep fighting. There’s still time to save him.
Flightless Bird had a great episode covering this.
