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People on social media are saying he's innocent, if not most, but by a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the execution of Dustin Higgs, the 13th and final execution under the Trump administration.
The main controversy surrounding Higgs's case is that Higgs did not personally kill any of the three victims. The man who fatally shot all three women to death, Willis Mark Haynes, was sentenced to life plus 45 years, while Higgs, who remained in a vehicle when the killings took place, received a death sentence.
Should Higgs be executed, he could become the last person who will be executed by the United States federal government before a long pause. Despite being in favor of capital punishment in the past, president-elect of the United States Joe Biden opposes capital punishment in the United States, meaning it is highly unlikely anyone else will be executed by the federal government during his presidential term. Higgs's scheduled execution is / might have happened while i'm typing this.
His death penalty has been delayed as I speak, do you think he deserves to die if he didn't commit the murder? There are hundreds of thousands of people who think no, but do what do you think?
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post hoc fallacy
in reality, factors like impoverishment, gang conflicts, and larger populations catalyze higher murder rates than the death penalty can control. It doesn't make sense to compare a country like france to the us when there are far more people and socioeconomic activities occurring. Regardless, if you never commit a crime (like most normal, functional members of society) it isn't something you ever need to worry about
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yeah i support the death penalty but this is weird
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There were some studies around showing that the death penalty due to multiple reasons cost more money in many instances than life.
Could be bullshit, but since there are special rows for inmate waiting the death penalty, countless appeals over the years, the fact they can't work in prison compared to other inmates etcetc. I wouldn't be surprised given the carceral system in the us.
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death row takes forever to work though
A quarter of death row inmates die of natural causes before they are executed
on average death row inmates spend 20 years in prison, and that is coupled with the extra costs for the execution itself, and any extra costs with stuff like extra security measures
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Okay, if they're innocent and wrongly convicted don't they deserve some time to have their lawyers collect more evidence?
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idk because you would need way more security measures, and chemicals for lethal injection and shit are super expensive
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that’s why they should just toss out injections and just shoot the guy
A Susquehanna University report found that, on average, across all 50 states, a death row inmate costs $1.12 million more than a general population inmate.
In July 2018, there were 2,738 inmates on death row.
That's almost $3 billion additional expense than if they had all been sentenced to life in prison instead.
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About 1/9 of people who have been executed were deeemed innocent afterwards, sometimes decades later.
If they were to instantly shoot people the number of *mistakes* would increase enormeously.
The death sentence serve 0 purpose, it doesn't disuade criminals from doing crimes anyway. The fact people gets wrongly executed because of it should be reason enough to abolish it.
And only applying it in *100% certain* cases doesn't resolve the problem. Who draws the shot about what is 100% sure?
Getting rid of it like you said is the best solution.
Feel like theres more to this story tbh. Doesn't seem realistic that these are all the facts of the case
edit: apparently the prosecution argued that he was the ring leader who both orchasrated the killings and bullied hayes into carrying them out. Although hayes signed a sworn affadivt that he was not threatended to kill the 3 people
Yes he was the orchestrator of the murders. The moment Diggs told Haynes to pull the trigger is the moment he exposed himself to the very same fate himself. You can't kill while expecting to be spared.
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ok but shouldn't the guy who killed the people get the penalty and not the guy who allegedly said that
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If a demon whispers something into your ear & makes you do it, is it the demon's fault or is it yours?
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yours because you listened to a demon
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I ain't listening to any demon mansss but that's my point right there
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You should really do some research on this case, as well as the overwhelming amount of negligence that goes on in our justice system. The amount of people who’ve been post-execution pardoned for being innocent is unacceptable.
- some guy on twitter
how can they even prove that he " ordered " a murder so dumb
funny law , didn't kill anyone and got death penalty , but the guy who did , got 45 years
lmao NA
btw he was executed via lethal injection
Lol you think Trump's gonna spare a black man?
He can't even get over being wrong about the Central Park 5 from decades ago. And I wouldn't expect any different from the Trump appointed Supreme Court justices.
He died, bruh pbs.twimg.com/media/Er1WwCGXIAI6tqp?form..
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how is he a piece of shit? he is innocent -_- wtf reported
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proof? he did nothing dumbo
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seems like it man
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Without any proof? No one kills without any proof. Don't listen to this man
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Why do you think the case has so much attention?
They didn't have proof...
Who do you punish more, the actual mafia boss like El Chapo that orders the killings of so many people around the world or the people that do it? I for sure know that I will choose the man behind the idea of murdering.
I mean for me Life Sentence is worse, because you live the rest of your life in misery. Death Penalty you know that you will die.
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You believe that now, because you are used to your "free" lifestyle and death might seem better than living like "that". But once you spent 5/10/15/20 years in prison, you get used to living like that and your favourable opinion on getting the death penalty can easily change. Alot of people that wanted the death penalty instead of life in prison later try everything they can to stop/suspend execution and keep on living even if it means being locked up for the rest of their natural life. What you define as misery now, can be what you wish for the most once the circumstances make it be.
meh should have execute both of them so that clowns like you wouldn't have to pretend there is a moral dilemma. there is none. if anything we should feel bad about the other guy staying alive. maybe they should turn the other dude into a slave laborer. make kamala proud.
Abolish the death pentalty. It has no place in 2021.
The system is fucked. 3rd world country in disguise.
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