"the death penalty in the United States is a moral and practical failure"

[Winehole23]

Cash deals in parking lots for execution drugs from shady compounding pharmacies

[koriwhat]

buzzfeed news

[Winehole23]

Legal formalism > the 6th Amendment and doing justice.

"Innocence isn't enough" even though AZ lowered the standard to permit the appointment of an unqualified lawyer in a capital case and at least three courts found the medical testimony faulty.

[Winehole23]

the opinion

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinion...-1009_19m2.pdf

[SnakeBoy]

Legal formalism > the 6th Amendment and doing justice.

"Innocence isn't enough" even though AZ lowered the standard to permit the appointment of an unqualified lawyer in a capital case and at least three courts found the medical testimony faulty.

[pgardn]

The death penalty and abortion.

Red team still has no definition of a human life.
"You are not a human life anymore. You forfeit that designation because we feels angry at you. Thats the law now. "

[ChumpDumper]

So being innocent of a crime for which you have been convicted doesn't matter to you?

[SnakeBoy]

Must've done sumthin

[ChumpDumper]

Must've done sumthin

Prove the other something beyond a reasonable doubt.

Or does that not matter to you either?

[Winehole23]

Must've done sumthin

indictment = guilt, interesting take

[Winehole23]

tough luck if the police or the DA get tunnel vision

[Blake]

Must've done sumthin

Being in the wrong place wrong time for some

[RandomGuy]

The death penalty and abortion.

Red team still has no definition of a human life.
"You are not a human life anymore. You forfeit that designation because we feels angry at you. Thats the law now. "

activist judges tbh.

[Winehole23]

Alabama botches another execution

[Blake]

Yeesh. No way to just do 2- 3 bullets to the head and/or chest? It's the chosen death penalty method for castle doctrine and good guys with guns heroes

[Winehole23]

Yeesh. No way to just do 2- 3 bullets to the head and/or chest? It's the chosen death penalty method for castle doctrine and good guys with guns heroes

you're not supposed to attribute to malice what can readily be put down to incompetence, but there's no reason why the former can't motivate the latter.

[Winehole23]

the botch is a selling point to sadists

[Winehole23]

formalism >justice

[Blake]

The Trump administration announced Friday that it will authorize firing squads as a federally permitted method of execution, deepening its push to revive the death penalty — underscoring a sharp divide with Pope Leo XIV and recent Catholic teaching. Hours after the Justice Department made its announcement, the pontiff condemned the death penalty as an attack on human dignity.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/25/g-s1-...-death-penalty