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minus-squareorcrist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·2 months agoI understand the feeling, but try not to pigeonhole. There are 300 million Americans, and I haven’t done a survey, but a substantial percent of the population thinks that the death penalty sucks. That’s one reason many states don’t use it at all.
minus-squareGiddyGap@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoI get that some states don’t do it, but the federal government also does it on behalf of everyone.
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoIt doesn’t work that way.
I understand the feeling, but try not to pigeonhole. There are 300 million Americans, and I haven’t done a survey, but a substantial percent of the population thinks that the death penalty sucks. That’s one reason many states don’t use it at all.
I get that some states don’t do it, but the federal government also does it on behalf of everyone.
It doesn’t work that way.