Hutchinson was convicted of killing his girlfriend, Renee Flaherty, and her three children: 9-year-old Geoffrey, 7-year-old Amanda, and 4-year-old Logan.
This person could only bring sympathy from an anti-capital punishment absolutist. For those of us who oppose capital punishment because the Sate gets it wrong so often, we have to acknowledge some times they get it right.
Am I a hypocrite? DAE want them to end capital punishment the day after they fry Dylan Roof?
Personally, I’m against the death penalty not because these kinds of people don’t deserve it, but our justice system can not adequately ensure other people with the same charges have actually done the crime, and there are many people within the system that can’t be trusted with that nuance. People can’t be trusted with giving out the death penalty.
Cases like this make it so difficult. As rule, I think capital punishment is wrong. But then someone like this guy who, whether his time in the military made him one or he was just a broken individual, is a monster and shouldn’t exist shows up. It’s wrong to treat any prisoner inhumanly, but damn is it hard to say this dude should have spent all of his time on death row in a metal box with not even a bed.
I still say that the death penalty should not exist, but I’m not going to give this guy a second thought today.
This person could only bring sympathy from an anti-capital punishment absolutist. For those of us who oppose capital punishment because the Sate gets it wrong so often, we have to acknowledge some times they get it right.
Am I a hypocrite? DAE want them to end capital punishment the day after they fry Dylan Roof?
Personally, I’m against the death penalty not because these kinds of people don’t deserve it, but our justice system can not adequately ensure other people with the same charges have actually done the crime, and there are many people within the system that can’t be trusted with that nuance. People can’t be trusted with giving out the death penalty.
That’s literally what OP said.
Yeah apologies, I should have more explicitly agreed with the post. Just wanted to expand my thoughts a little on it.
Totally fair!
Cases like this make it so difficult. As rule, I think capital punishment is wrong. But then someone like this guy who, whether his time in the military made him one or he was just a broken individual, is a monster and shouldn’t exist shows up. It’s wrong to treat any prisoner inhumanly, but damn is it hard to say this dude should have spent all of his time on death row in a metal box with not even a bed.
I still say that the death penalty should not exist, but I’m not going to give this guy a second thought today.