What It’s Like to Almost Get Executed
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What It’s Like to Almost Get Executed
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#2Shame on anyone still for such an archaic form of "justice".
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#3In the United States, innocence has never been grounds for an appeal, a stay, overturning, or clemency. Here in Florida, I could write an accurate algorithm for calculating the application of the Death Penalty. Skin darkness (literally, not race), IQ, wealth, sex are the relevant factors. The elements of the case are not.
I'm not against the Death Penalty on general principle grounds; I'm against it because we clearly aren't to be trusted with it.
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#4chmod +x whoami
./whoami
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#5This kind of emotional experience is beyond understanding for most of us (and hopefully remains so). The masterpiece of a film Army of Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville has a scene in it, of an execution that .. (I won't continue with spoilers). It was one of the most powerful things I've ever watched that made me feel maybe just a tiny bit, what that might be like.
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#6This kind of emotional experience is beyond understanding for most of us (and hopefully remains so). The masterpiece of a film Army of Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville has a scene in it, of an execution that .. (I won't continue with spoilers). It was one of the most powerful things I've ever watched that made me feel maybe just a tiny bit, what that might be like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Shadows
There is also The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre (warning, PDF):
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#7Why are stays left to the last minute? Death pealty cases and their appeals last many years.
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#8In the United States, innocence has never been grounds for an appeal, a stay, overturning, or clemency. Here in Florida, I could write an accurate algorithm for calculating the application of the Death Penalty. Skin darkness (literally, not race), IQ, wealth, sex are the relevant factors. The elements of the case are not. I'm not against the Death Penalty on general principle grounds; I'm against it because we clearl…
Actual innocence is a grounds for vacating a conviction.
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#9Why are stays left to the last minute? Death pealty cases and their appeals last many years.
The closer you get to the actual death, the sadder the story gets and the more people come out of the woodwork to try and help.
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#10Shame on anyone still for such an archaic form of "justice".
Let's not make blanket statements or anything.