Hegseth’s announcement triggered triggered widespread condemnation spanning GOP lawmakers, Democrats and pundits across the spectrum in media.
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I support this. Doing executions in secret only serves to protect capital punishment supporters and prison officials from discomfort and pain. America should have to look at what it’s done.
I don’t think most of them even have normal human empathy. I’ve seen lots and lots of these kinds of arguments, and what people seem to be missing in these arguments is that some people have no moral compass. It will give them no pain and no discomfort whatsoever.
Remember this: people used to take their kids and have a goddamned picnic while people were being lynched. It was family entertainment for them. We still have people among us that would go right back to that sort of thing if permitted.
How about we just go back to the policy of not executing people.