The other day, I had the fun of explaining the Castle Doctrine, stand-your-ground and Trayvon Martin’s murder to my 13-year-old. Just a couple of days ago, we talked about how the U.S. is, as far as I know, the only Western country to regularly use capital punishment and that even Anders Breivik wasn’t given the death penalty for what he did. We had to talk about how the American penal system is almost entirely punitive and not at all rehabilitative.
I fucking love having to explain how much this country sucks to my daughter on a regular basis.
That’s terrible. How to ever begin to explain? The US is pretty crazy.
I’m gonna let you in on a secret. Us Nordic countries may be better in some or even most aspects, but the same misrepresentation and dysfunction of govt systems exists here.
Not to the same scale, probably, but it’d be a disservice pretending it doesn’t.
I was denied my prescription medication while in jail.
I was up three days and wrote several hundred words in my own blood on the walls.
I didn’t get my prescribed medication. My water was cut off completely for several hours. I have a congenital kidney issue.
I tried making a thing out of it. No-one cares. No-one. People just pretend I made it up despite having photographic evidence.
It only makes sense for it to be volunteers. Telling someone they will lose their medical job if they don’t perform an execution would be dumb. I’m more interested in what states it isn’t administered by volunteers.
We don’t have it in my country so I know very little and didn’t know this, just popped up in my RSS reader today. I just can’t imagine who would want to.
I’m against the death penalty, but it’s not hard to imagine who would volunteer.
Even in the EU, where there is a total ban on executions, about half the population favors ending the ban.
So look around wherever you are, and unfortunately you will soon spot someone willing to volunteer.
I think it sounds horrific myself but maybe it appeals to psychopaths.
I just can’t imagine who would want to.
Conservatives salivate over the opportunity to kill. The need to harm others is an innate part of who they are.
I guess yeah. Just wild to think about.
I just can’t imagine who would want to.
People who would like to see one less murderer in the world. They likely aren’t short on volunteers.
I’m just amazed they don’t sell tickets.
I read an article after I posted this about people who volunteer as witnesses to executions. They’re all conservatives and they’re so bloodthirsty.
