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matt819

(10,749 posts) Thu Oct 12, 2017, 12:58 PM Oct 2017

Death Penalty - Tonight Texas executes a 36-year-old who was sentenced at age 15 [View all]

Someone shared this on FB this morning, suggesting that the 20 minutes it might take to read the storey is worth it, as this man dies tonight.

Coming as it does on the heels of so much other weird shit going on - Puerto Rico, CA wildfires, kneeling, police violence, savaging the first amendment while blindly supporting the second, etc. - it's just one more depressing story of the savage and rogue nation we are.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/the-autobiography-of-robert-pruett

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Death Penalty - Tonight Texas executes a 36-year-old who was sentenced at age 15 [View all] matt819 Oct 2017 OP

No one in their right mind should think this is justice janterry Oct 2017 #1

The death penalty is barbaric. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2017 #2

COMPLETELY MISLEADING THREAD TITLE**. He was incarcerated at 15, then, AT TWENTY (20), he was WinkyDink Oct 2017 #3

+1 Sneederbunk Oct 2017 #7

I realize that matt819 Oct 2017 #10

Oh, "the ESSENCE," eh? Nope, not acceptable. Your (and my) opinion of the DP wasn't my issue. WinkyDink Oct 2017 #13

How do you know he didn't commi the initial crime? Kaleva Oct 2017 #14

It's in the article matt819 Oct 2017 #16

He wasn't charged with the actual murder Kaleva Oct 2017 #17

But the State of Texas can still take the life of a 15 year old... CajunBlazer Oct 2017 #12

In the news recently was a 16 year old who killed a man and raped an 81 year old woman Kaleva Oct 2017 #15

The answer is obviously and unquestionably yes. Orrex Oct 2017 #19

Okay, thanks. I thought that was clearly unconstitutional. kcr Oct 2017 #18

Texas elected Gov. W, and then America, AFTER he fought to not to Hortensis Oct 2017 #4

Care to re-write in order to be understood? WinkyDink Oct 2017 #5

Depicable, depraved votes and not-votes did this, but we won't Hortensis Oct 2017 #6

Did not help one iota. "Not-votes"? Do you mean "non-voters"? WinkyDink Oct 2017 #8

This is very strange. Weekend Warrior Oct 2017 #11

This murder will be done in our names. We own it. Weekend Warrior Oct 2017 #9

Accomplis to murder @ age 15: Jail Time. Murdering your corrections officer in jail @ age 20... JoeStuckInOH Oct 2017 #20