stopthatgirl7Jan 13, 2024

Prosecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarket

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-death-penalty-b6ab8eda541c2c0a0b512a89b0471b91

Buffalo supermarket gunman to face death penalty in hate crimes case

U.S. prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist gunman who killed 10 Black people inside a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. The decision was announced Friday in a court filing. Payton Gendron is already is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole after he pleaded guilty to state charges of murder and domestic terrorism in the 2022 massacre. New York does not have capital punishment, but the Justice Department had the option of seeking the death penalty in a separate federal hate crimes case. Gendron had promised through his lawyers to plead guilty if prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

AP News
Show threadSemi-Hemi-DemigodJan 13, 2024

I don't like the death penalty and how inequally it's applied, but in this case I say we decrease the surplus population.

Rest in piss, asshole.

Show threadMindSkipperBro12
Just kill the useless and dangerous folk and it’ll work out in the benefit of society.
Jan 13, 2024 at 5:29amWeb
Show threadPunnyNameJan 13, 2024
Who will be deemed useless and dangerous?
Who will have this power to judge?
Will they be responsible, or corruptible?
Show threadMindSkipperBro12Jan 13, 2024
Exactly. I said that to make the death penalty look bad, which it is.
Show threadMoira_MayhemJan 13, 2024
What alternative do you have for people actively detrimental to societies such as serial killers and child rapists?
Show threadAugustinerJan 13, 2024

Reform, and if they continue to pose a risk for society keep them in a prison/psychiatric ward until they die or are reformed. It’s not hard, most of the more civilized societies already figured it out.

Look at how Norway handles Breivik for example. That guy is a proper monster. But he still gets treated according to human rights, cause he is still human. We as a society should be better and more rational than the monsters that we condemn.

Show threadFlying SquidJan 13, 2024
There’s this thing we have called ‘prison.’
Show threadAniki 🌱🌿Jan 13, 2024
It’s pretty easy to not-murder. I’ve been doing it my whole life. Even went vegan!
Show threadstarman2112Jan 13, 2024
You know that life in prison means they usually don’t go out to kill and rape against right?
Show threadpinkdrunkenelephantsJan 14, 2024

You know that most rapists never actually see a day in court, let alone are jailed, and rape actually does not net people life sentences, only a few years at most, right?

But who needs facts or to take anyone else’s feelings into consideration when your personal feelings are so much more important than the rest of the planet’s and the women you subjugate with your shit?

Show threadstarman2112Jan 14, 2024

  • I didn’t say that rape gets you life in prison, I said that life in prison means you don’t get to rape and murder anymore

  • That most rapists never see a day in court means that the death penalty wouldn’t help anyway

  • It is a travesty that those rapists who do get caught only serve a few years, but the death penalty is proven ineffective at reducing crime rates. Nobody would be helped by executing rapists instead of just imprisoning them for life

    • Show threadPunnyNameJan 13, 2024
    Jail for life.
    Show threadBytemeisterJan 13, 2024
    Me. I see no problem with this. All of me in favor, say aye. Aye. The ayes have it, motion passed.
    Show threadFlying SquidJan 13, 2024
    Will you still have no problem with this if you’re deemed useless?
    Show threadBytemeisterJan 13, 2024
    Let me check. Do I deem myself useless. No. Looks like we’re good to go.
    Show threadMoira_MayhemJan 13, 2024
    The only danger that creeps in here is 'who gets to decide who is useless and dangerous?' because I wear glasses and don't feel like being on the receiving end of a Khmer Rouge style microcide.
    Show threadteamevilJan 13, 2024
    Good for you, it’s not glasses this month, it’s the hearing aids that indicate “useless” status and crutches for dangerous because you can use them as weapons.