Danielle ForéApr 16, 2023

Florida is getting real scary real fast. They will now allow death penalty sentences with an 8-4 jury vote instead of unanimous, they’ve passed a bill to make sex crimes against children punishable by death, and they’re working to make being trans near children a sex crime. For all the “it could never happen here” folks, we’re inching closer to state sanctioned mass murder all the time.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-to-allow-death-penalty-with-8-4-jury-vote-instead-of-unanimously/ar-AA19S7Fh

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-house-backs-death-penalty-in-child-rapes/

https://translegislation.com/bills/2023/FL

Florida to allow death penalty with 8-4 jury vote instead of unanimously

(Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a bill on Friday allowing juries to recommend the death penalty in capital cases on an 8-4 vote, a move spurred by the less-than-unanimous vote that led to the Parkland school shooter being sentenced to life in prison. The state's Republican-led House of Representatives approved the measure with an 80-30 vote on Thursday, following the

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Show threadShimrra Shai
@danirabbit To be fair, though, I can't exactly sympathize with the pedoes - though I'd still prefer some sort of neuroscientific-based and possibly higher-tech treatment to be developed instead of a death penalty. The problem, of course, is that it doesn't stop there, as you've said.
Apr 16, 2023 at 8:25pmWeb
Show threadSapphic HazardApr 17, 2023

@shimrrashai @danirabbit
There are no actual pedophiles targeted by this bill. The pedophilia that the bill purports to face is entirely a fabrication by right wing actors rationalizing these laws. The way you can tell is simple:

If right wing actors actually cared *at all* about pedophilia, they wouldn't have allowed people like Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and Donald Trump into the party in the first place, moreover their live and let live response to pedophilia in the church.

Show threadLiz Ellis She/Her🌳Apr 18, 2023
@shimrrashai @danirabbit
If you have the death penalty for child sexual abuse that doesn't involve murder, then abusers will kill the victim to negate the primary witness. This will result in an increase in child murder.
Show threadShimrra ShaiApr 19, 2023

@LizEllisPhD @danirabbit

Yep, hence why I said that the curative method is better than the retributive death penalty method.

Show threadLiz Ellis She/Her🌳Apr 19, 2023
@shimrrashai @danirabbit sorry, I misunderstood you. I interpreted your post as advocating for some kind of weird fucked up lobotomy type thing which doesn’t ‘kill’ the perp but makes them as good as dead. This is what years of twitter does to a person.
Show threadShimrra ShaiApr 19, 2023

@LizEllisPhD @danirabbit

Yeah, I have no idea what it'd look like, but definitely not that. :)

Maybe somehow it diminishes the feeling of sexual attraction to children enough that it's easy to ignore/control it, is what I'd be thinking.

(So it's not necessarily out-and-out forcing some sort of hegemonic "normalcy" concept on them either, just making it so that it's easier not to victimize people esp. when coupled with psychotherapy, incentives, or the like.)