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I grew up living with a chaplain who worked death row at a large prison, so I have considerable hands-on experience interacting with death-row inmates, and no, the label "death row" does not provide enough information for judgement.
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> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
> Eschew flamebait.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals
This is a heartbreaking story. I love playing D&D, and I can only imagine how important it is to these people in a setting like this. I hope the United States joins the rest of the western world and bans capital punishment soon--preferably yesterday.
Tell that to their victims. The only downside to capital punishment is that it's possible to wrongly convict someone. Other than that, there are crimes that people commit where you can never trust them to be safe around people again. In that case, capital punishment is perfectly justified in my mind. The idea that keeping them in prison for life is somehow more humane is silly. The rest of the world is letting crime…
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Some of the countries that do have death penalty, like India and Japan, reserve the death penalty for "the worst of the worst" (intentional mass murder etc). Neither of the guys profiled here qualify, and it's particularly shocking that Ford was sent to death row purely on circumstantial evidence.
Here [1] is his court case. The NYTimes is not reporting the events in a remotely fair way. It was an attempted mass murder. After tormenting a family of 4 who gave them everything he demanded, he then declared his intent to murder them all and started shooting them one by one. Those that survived did so only by good grace. One survivor, for instance, was shot point blank in the head. Another was able to fake have be…
This is a heartbreaking story. I love playing D&D, and I can only imagine how important it is to these people in a setting like this. I hope the United States joins the rest of the western world and bans capital punishment soon--preferably yesterday.
and yet, how is death sentence any worse than life in prison? if it were me, I'd just want a quick exit rather than rotting in a cage for decades
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Tell that to their victims. The only downside to capital punishment is that it's possible to wrongly convict someone. Other than that, there are crimes that people commit where you can never trust them to be safe around people again. In that case, capital punishment is perfectly justified in my mind. The idea that keeping them in prison for life is somehow more humane is silly. The rest of the world is letting crime…
> The only downside to capital punishment is that it's possible to wrongly convict someone. Other than that... For many, myself included, there is no "other than that." My core and unbending opposition to capital punishments exists solely on the fact that the punishment is irreversible and there's too many documented cases where executed prisoners were likely wrongfully convicted. I could perhaps support capital puni…
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so "death row" is a label with no other information attached?
has anyone earned that label but later been found not guilty?
The prison I mentioned was majority black. I knew a man personally who had been in prison for over 40 years, since his early 20s. He wasn't on death row, but he spent his entire life in prison for a murder he maintained he never committed. I believed him.
One day in this man's late 60s, another man at the prison who was on death row was executed. At his execution, he confessed to another murder... the same one that the first man had been charged with. It took 40 years for this poor man to be exonerated, because he was locked up in a time where being black was enough to get the book thrown at you. If he was on death row, he wouldn't have gotten 40 years to prove his innocence.
But the best part? The prison warden maneuvered to gum the process up with as much paperwork as possible, and this man died in prison as a free man.
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Here [1] is his court case. The NYTimes is not reporting the events in a remotely fair way. It was an attempted mass murder. After tormenting a family of 4 who gave them everything he demanded, he then declared his intent to murder them all and started shooting them one by one. Those that survived did so only by good grace. One survivor, for instance, was shot point blank in the head. Another was able to fake have be…
Your source says Ford's cohort was identified as a local, not Ford himself.