Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law Tuesday a bill allowing executions by nitrogen gas and electrocution, opening the door for Louisiana to revive capital punishment 14 years after it last used its death chamber.
Republicans just can’t not kill people
And they call themselves prolife!
KILLING PEOPLE is called being PRO LIFE!
Abolish capital punishment.
FYI: Louisiana’s electric chair is/was named “Gruesome Gertie.”. I believe it is in a museum at the state penitentiary at Angola.
I love how that woman trots out her son’s photo like victims of crime should have any input whatsoever as to what justice is dispensed.
Law is supposed to be reason, free of passion.
How is a victim going to help with that?
As always, the GOP goes with what works, get votes. While the Democrats clutch pearls and wring their wrists, “Whatever shall we do?!”
Y’all ever been to Mississippi? How about Louisiana, AKA, “At least we’re not Mississippi! We’re #2!”
Such beautiful states, such beautiful people. Guess most of you won’t believe that. Easier to believe they’re all hate filled, racist rednecks (Despite the shitloads of black people living there.) Fits the memes around here, fits the zeitgeist. Gets upvotes, and the same one-liner comments.
These people are in desperate straits. Lashing out, listening to anyone who promises to heal their pain. And their pain is real, and their pain is a liberal punching bag. But hey! Perfectly safe to trash those people! They’re subhuman and it’s all their own fault! (Do not bag on any other group of poor people on this globe. Those people are victims, not their fault.)
I don’t know how we break them free from animals like this governor. They’ve been caught in a downward spiral since the Civil War. I drive through and see the wealth disparity. I talk to people I meet in the lonely backwoods gas stations. I see the love and community, and yes, community between blacks and whites. (I could go on about that last bit, but you won’t believe me.) The suffering I see breaks my fucking heart.
I cried my eyes out when Katrina hit. Cried and wept and raged for my neighbors. (I had just got through Hurricane Ivan.) Did you know southern MS took it in the teeth and New Orleans was merely collateral damage? I cried for all of them. Fuck me, I’m weepy now.
If you give a shit about America’s poorest, and how they feel, where they’re at:
https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello
Give it a spin. I warn you, his videos are not cutesy little clips. He goes there, he asks hard questions, he talks to the sorts of people most of you have never met. Takes some time to intake.
Or, just make some more snide comments about us dumbass Southerners, feel righteous and superior, and go about your day.
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Seems like a good idea to me.
Punishing criminals does not need to be as expensive as it is.
Death penalties cost more in lawyers and appeals than regular incarceration does.
It’s only cheaper if you’re a fascist unconcerned with due process.
It doesn’t need to.
But it already IS and DOES so take your fantasy and go fuck yourself with it.
Calm down. I already said “punishing criminals does not need to be as expensive as it is.”
It’s possible to do it for cheaper, even if we choose not to. You really should take a break.
This bears repeating. It’s only cheaper if you’re a fascist unconcerned with due process. So you should really just stop lying or take your Nazi rhetoric elsewhere.
Not really. It can be cheaper while maintaining due process.
I don’t think you’re capable of understanding this, though.
How?
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It is not possible to do it cheaper without murdering even more innocent people. That should be unacceptable for anyone with halfway decent morals.
even more innocent people.
How many innocent people get the death penalty in the US?
Since the 70s, 1584 people have been executed, of which at least 197 have later been exonerated. So a cool 10%. How high would you like it to go to save money?
Don’t tell me what to do, dickcheese. Take the L and go be wrong.
Calm down.
Don’t tell me what to do, dickcheese.
You’re right, but how expensive is it to make sure that the people you are punishing actually are criminals, and how expensive should it be to make sure that the punishment is proportional to the severity of the crime?
Also, is prison about punishment, or is it about reform? (Trick question)
