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Texas Records All Inmates Last Words Before Execution And Puts Them All Online

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

hayksaakian wrote: post #26
dionidium wrote: post #9

Hard to reconcile some of these last words with the reality of their crimes: Juxtapose: I was so glad to leave this world a better, more positive place. It’s not an easy life with all the negativities. ... I hope I left everyone a plate of food full of happy memories, happiness and no sadness. [0] With this: > On September 11, 1999, Jones murdered his great aunt, 83-year-old Berthena Bryant, bludgeoning her to death…

is it so hard to believe that someone who spends 20 years in prison might have recognized their mistakes, and set out to do as much good as they can within their constraints?

Is almost as if they were partially rehabilitated.

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Post by public_defender »

fartzzz wrote: post #109

I really don’t understand why they include race in the list? It has nothing to do with their crime or lasts words? But the sex of the offender is not included in the list.

Texas is probably required to track and publish the data as the result of a well-founded accusation that the arrest -> trial -> execution pipeline is racist.

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Post by rosywoozlechan »

ALittleLight wrote: post #195
dr_dshiv wrote: post #170

“First I would like to say I have been here since September 2005. I had the honor and privilege to know many prison guards and staff. I want to thank all of them. I would like for everyone to write the people on death row as they are all good men and I am very happy I got to know them. All of their lives are worth knowing about. Secondly on February 14th the medical examiner and the chief nurse were engaged in numero…

For context, this speaker was convicted of raping, beating, and murdering a pregnant woman and a teenage girl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosendo_Rodriguez

He didn't say anything about his victims or their families.

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Post by awb »

kubb wrote: post #40

I wonder how many innocent are executed per year on average.

The Innocence Project estimates 1% of all inmates are wrongfully convicted:

https://innocenceproject.org/how-many-innocent-people-are-in...

Others put the range between 0.027% and 4.1%

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-many-...

> So then the next terrifying question is, geeze, how many innocent people have actually been executed?

> Fortunately it’s probably not many. Innocent defendants are far more likley to have their sentenced changed to life in prison than to be executed. Still, with an error rate of 4 percent, the researchers write, “it is all but certain that several of the 1,320 defendants executed since 1977 were innocent.”

Of the 1,320 executions over the past 45 years, using various estimates of wrongful convictions:

0.027% = 0.35 total (~1 every 128.5 years)

1% = 13.2 total (~1 every 3.4 years)

4.1% = 54.12 total (~1 every 10 months)

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Post by dionidium »

aaomidi wrote: post #80
namdnay wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Think if your daughter/son/mom/dad got slaughtered, do you think the pain would be less acute even two decades later? Yeah it would definitely be less acute, still there every day, but less acute. Like most trauma. Would killing the murderer in 2021 make me feel any better? To that question the answer is without a doubt "no".

And honestly if your answer to this is yes, you’re in need of deep help.

This is silly. It’s fine to disagree, but millions (billions?) of healthy, morally ordinary people support the death penalty.

They might of course be wrong, in some sense, but they don’t “need help,” for crying out loud.

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Post by conductr »

giraffe_lady wrote: post #194
conductr wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you read past that you'd have seen why I was actually arguing against it and due to the bigger issue I see in our justice system. But yes, there are people out there like me that do support capital punishment for various reasons/conditions; sorry to upset you about that news.

It's not news that there is evil, but it continues to surprise me that people are proud to engage in it.

Ok I'm just stating my thoughts and discussing. I think if you want to retort in this manner, you probably should head over to Reddit

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Post by eschulz »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #35

Why do this? I'm not sure it serves any good purpose.

Probably a state law or administrative policy established this practice as both proof that the execution followed appropriate and customary practices as well as a sense of closure for the community/victims.

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Post by t-writescode »

dhsysusbsjsi wrote: post #25

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I was the last person in my family to speak to my mother before she died. I take her words to heart. For me, they were her last direct words to me.

When you become a ward of the state, the only people that will directly hear your words are the State, with possibly decades of life having passed since they last spoke to people they knew before they went in.

The State chooses to take the responsibility of sharing those last words with the world.

Last Words and even the last meal provides us a vision into the world and into their mind's state in their time nearing death. The currently top-rated comment on HN is someone using their last words to try and beg for injustices within the prison system to be looked at. We wouldn't have those words otherwise and the perpetrators would be even more likely to be able to continue their harm than if those words hadn't.

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Post by dionidium »

fphhotchips wrote: post #198
dionidium wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s something very odd to me about the modern progressive position that, more or less, if you can explain a crime, then you can in some sense excuse it. That description of his childhood works for me in sociological terms — let’s avoid stuff that we know to create monsters — but not on individual ones (i.e. the monster, having been created, is indeed a monster).

The question is, do you blame the monster for being a monster? Or do you blame the people that made them one? There are valid points both ways. IMO I think the idea is that if you can explain the crime then maybe the monster was created by society and thus can be redeemed by society. If you can't explain the crime, maybe the monster is just a monster.

As a materialist and a determinist I accept implicitly that everything has a cause and nobody is really responsible for anything, in some sense. But I find it’s pretty hard to actually live as though that’s true.

Taken to its logical conclusions: I’m not even responsible for my belief that he’s responsible, and so on.

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Post by t-writescode »

ALittleLight wrote: post #195
dr_dshiv wrote: post #170

“First I would like to say I have been here since September 2005. I had the honor and privilege to know many prison guards and staff. I want to thank all of them. I would like for everyone to write the people on death row as they are all good men and I am very happy I got to know them. All of their lives are worth knowing about. Secondly on February 14th the medical examiner and the chief nurse were engaged in numero…

For context, this speaker was convicted of raping, beating, and murdering a pregnant woman and a teenage girl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosendo_Rodriguez

And?

Does his harming of another mean that he can't be harmed and he can't speak truth to try and save people who would be harmed in the future?

Do you have the same thoughts about confidential informants, police that go under cover or individuals that turn State's Evidence? Committing a crime == "they're liars and never speak truth"?

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