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therealpigman t1_jd05fjn wrote

Reply to comment by Onlyroad4adrifter in DA to seek death penalty against man accused of fatally shooting McKeesport officer by OaSoaD

No exceptions. Life in prison can be worse than death anyway, and there’s a chance the person can actually repent and become a better person

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headpsu t1_jd0rmno wrote

The problem with the death penalty isn’t that convicted criminals won’t have the chance to repent and better themselves.

The real horror of the death penalty is that innocent people get convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. Death is absolute. You can’t commute a sentence and award damages to a wrongfully convicted person if you kill them.

The system is flawed, it’s is created and run by humans who are flawed, and we know some unacceptable amount of innocent people are in prison. Some of those people are on death row.

I would rather have all of the atrocious criminals, spend life in prison, than have one innocent person committed to death. that innocent person could be your coworker, or childhood friend, or sibling, or you…. or your child.

Until our criminal justice system can operate at 100% effectiveness, the permanency of a death sentence is unacceptable.

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where_is_the_key t1_jd0ojfw wrote

That’s quite the hope in our prison system lmao Maybe if we focused on prevention & rehabilitation instead of punishment we would get more people that become better. But a life prison sentence isn’t gonna do that either Bc it’s still more of a punishment than a rehabilitation lol

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Onlyroad4adrifter t1_jd1kebj wrote

There is no reforming a child predator. They are the worst kind of human possible.

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IamChantus t1_jd1v6me wrote

Yeah, repent is totally the wrong word for an area with Zubik as the Bishop.

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