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starmartyr t1_j185tt9 wrote

Reply to comment by The_Great_Skeeve in After decades in prison, exonerated Philadelphia man was fatally shot at a funeral by kittehstrophic

Williams was sentenced to death. Willfully withholding exculpatory evidence is effectively attempted murder.

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jonathanrdt t1_j18hjvq wrote

Capital punishment is proven to be an ineffective deterrent, it costs more than life in prison, and it can err.

There is no modern justification; it can only serve primitive needs for revenge, which have no place in a modern judicial system.

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ChallyPrime t1_j19jh68 wrote

Shout it louder for Redditors to hear. There's plenty of bloodlust in this sub.

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jonathanrdt t1_j19pevl wrote

We do not generally subscribe to a modern ethos, so most confuse justice and revenge. The earliest codes of laws conflate the two: Code of Hammurabi is where we get ‘an eye for an eye’. We have done much better since, but we still have far to go.

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