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mytailorisrich • today at 5:49 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

For me the issue isn't so much to execute someone for something they did at 18 (18 is plenty old enough to knowingly do atrocious things), but rather to do it 32 years later with all the time spent in jail.


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JuniperMesos • today at 7:04 AM

The US legal system allows for a great deal of time to be spent appealing death penalty cases, which usually takes years. Most people who support the death penalty support it happening much more quickly than decades after the sentence was passed.

dyauspitr • today at 6:59 AM

I mean I’d rather live for 32 years than have them quickly do everything and kill me at 20.