OT: Brit Reid sentenced to 3 yrs in DWI case

Nehalem said:

I think the real reason it is lacking in deterrence is that it is only used for the most serious murders. Most people just don't find themselves in a situation where they are going gruesomely murder someone very often.

If we said you get 3 DWIs you get executed it, and actually did within a reasonable period of time I bet it would be more of a deterrent. And since DWIs tend to be a lot harder to be wrongly convicted of it, and you have to do it 3 times it pretty much eliminates most of the good arguments against capital punishment.

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This is kinda of crazy logic though. Like yeah if you apply the death penalty to a bunch of non violent crimes then yeah people who aren't hardened criminals are going to be afraid of it. But it's not a deterrent for people who are already willing to murder.

America is the 55th ranked country when it comes to homicide. Aside from Russia, it's the highest of first world countries. It has the death penalty.

Almost all of Europe has the death penalty abolished. The US homicide rate is 6x higher than France, Finland, UK, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Ireland, Croatia, Czech, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Norway, Slovenia, Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, Malta.

If it were that much of a deterrent, you would think that countries that don't have the death penalty wouldn't be wildly outperforming the US in terms of homicides. Especially in comparable first world countries.

ON TOP OF THAT, we have such an extensive process to make sure that we get the death penalty right, with exaustive appeals and high standards, to the point where it literally costs more to execute someone than to keep them in prison for life. In yet, we know for a fact we still execute people who turn out to be innocent.

It's just a failed process. We can't even guarantee everyone we execute is guilty, despite being one of the few first world countries with the death penalty we don't have a lower homicide rate, and frankly aren't close. If we are moving to "let's lower the standard for what we execute for" maybe we should just realize it's not getting the intended outcome and has more problems than it solves.

FreeTedWilliams said:

100% of the executed convicts never commit another crime.

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Same with the people we execute that end up being found innocent

Disgraceful

Miller said she was not notified by the governor's office about the commutation, and she said she has not personally heard from Reid or his family since the accident. Asked if she would take their calls, she said "no."

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Sect140 said:

I read that Governor Parson has season tickets for Chiefs games.

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He went to the Super Bowl. I’m sure it was paid for.
He also got a tattoo after the Super Bowl to commemorate the Chiefs win. Ridiculous.
I am not a diversity or inclusivity freak, but when I looked at the governors staff, not a single non-white person pictured.
Crash victim's mom shocked by Reid commutation

It’s amazing how ******** Andy Reid’s public persona is. The affable football coach who loves his players and is basically this jolly giant doing all these fun commercials and oh isn’t it funny he loves food? And maybe he does love his players idk. He’s a dirtbag outside of his job. A total dirtbag.

This kind of **** infuriates me. The special privilege the rich get in the jjustice system is absolutely disgraceful. This guy. Should be doing 10 years in a nasty state prison, not kicking back at home in a mansion with the benefits included.