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Danielle Foré Apr 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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Shimrra Shai Apr 16, 2023

@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.

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Sapphic Hazard

@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.