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John Dule
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« on: March 18, 2023, 10:43:33 PM »

My moral objection to the death penalty stems from the risk of executing innocent people, which is not a factor here. Give him the meathooks!
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John Dule
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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2023, 01:08:24 PM »

My moral objection to the death penalty stems from the risk of executing innocent people, which is not a factor here. Give him the meathooks!

So would you support the death penalty for instances where there was, say, video evidence of a particularly bad crime/murder?  Or do you also make an exception for what we have deemed to be war crimes?

I don't think there's a legal standard we can create that is more stringent than "beyond a reasonable doubt" that would include cases with video evidence and exclude cases without it. I oppose the death penalty for this reason.

The only executions I'm willing to tolerate are those carried out against violators of human rights, who committed those violations in a context where they felt they could act with impunity and therefore felt no need to conceal their crimes. This includes dictators, but I would also include slaveowners after the Civil War in this category. There's no credible dispute as to their guilt because when they did what they did, they considered it legal.
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