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jointheredditarmy t1_ivjrlxa wrote

Reply to comment by AFourEyedGeek in Two 15 year olds are interviewed inside their max-security prison cell by MiddleUziVert

I can tell from your tone that you aren’t seriously suggestion that… but… yeah it’s not a bad idea. If the jury can only choose between a 15 year max sentence or death penalty, you’d have much shorter average prison terms and the ones who really deserved the death penalty will get it

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AFourEyedGeek t1_ivn9af1 wrote

In some ways I actually do understand this, but who decides 'who really deserved the death penalty'? Hard ass conservatives keen to pull the trigger on any trangression they can or soft ass liberals letting mass muderers live with access to mutliple facilities?

I think if you have a young man beaten by their guardian most of their life, who only knows violence, gets into a tussle with another angry young man and one ends up dead, wouldn't it be better to try and reform the survivor? Show them that violence isn't the only way life can be?

Another thing I wonder how many black people would get executed vs white people getting 15 years.

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