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.

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Show threadNobodyJan 13, 2024

The death penalty is a barbaric institution. It always has been, and it always will be. The government says it’s okay to murder this person, so let’s murder him.

I don’t get why that doesn’t shock people’s consciences and sense of basic decency.

Show threadMagicShelJan 13, 2024
I think it’s that guys like this one aren’t a hill anyone is eager to die on. Like, it’s bad, but let’s not make this guy the poster boy for ending the practice. There are other cases I’m much happier to cite in arguments opposing the death penalty.
Show threadNobodyJan 13, 2024
Even a single innocent person getting murdered by the state makes the practice barbaric. The state is imperfect. It should not have a license to murder.
Show threadDontMakeMoreBabiesJan 13, 2024

I'd rather society focus on something besides saving the 0.5% of folks wrongly convicted and sentenced to death.

Huge waste of resources to spend on a population (criminals) that seem for the most part either criminally retarded or just bad.

Either way, fuck 'em.

Show threadTheGrandNagus

Something tells me you wouldn’t be espousing this “it’s fine for the state to murder innocent people from time to time” if it were you, your partner, or your child on death row.

What a disgustingly callous attitude.

Jan 13, 2024 at 5:49pmWeb