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Right.

In an article about a woman condemned to DIE you need to make your point -that you admit is irrelevant to the topic- that she shouldn’t have as many children as she did.

And you don’t expect to come across as crass because *checks notes* you’re filled with “an overwhelming urge to save the planet” and you already stated your “take” on her situation in a previous post?

Interesting process…

I’m not condemning you or your point I actually am sympathetic to it.

I just maybe don’t think it’s appropriate to make it here, no matter that it is specifically worded, with caveats, and a desire not to offend “unnecessarily” (lol) —or not— in a forum where the discussion is about how an innocent woman’s life hangs in the balance, not her lack of birth control.

If, however, your perspective is to double down on your “hey I don’t think you should be executed but I also think you should have made better reproductive choices -if you could have” statement, then I guess you’ll have to come at me for having the audacity to observe that you’re weakening your compassionate argument a wee bit there with your judgement of her life choices.

But sure, I should stay mute so you can avoid hearing how your bold thoughts on overpopulation are, despite your best efforts, still managing to come across as unkind at a minimum and rather offensive at a maximum in this context.

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McVeigh ended up waiving his appeals

The law is the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act - one of the more toxic legacies of the Gingrich-Clinton Era (was a bipartisan bit of terrible legislation)

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Red State !

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I think the idea that Russia does not have a dealth penalty is, well, inaccurate. They don't have an official court dealth penalty, maybe, but you sure end up dead if the state don't like you. Same same really

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If they void the conviction, she might sue the popo et al for illegal imprisonment

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The ortolan is an endangered bird. So is justice.

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I'm my case atheist until I learned Buddhism had sects that were by and large atheist but had a nice code of morals and ethics to adhere to.

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"Shaken Baby Syndrome" is not a thing that can be definitively proven

Not-so-fun fact about SBS: A lot of the "experts" who whipped the justice system into a frenzy over that were the same people who brought us the Satanic Panic of the 1980s.LA Weekly 04/09/15

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In Mother Russia, windows open YOU!

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Oh that poor woman. What a horrible perverse thing, requiring active evil and the banality of evil and all the other kinds of evil. That poor family.

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Don't mourn, agitate: https://www.amnestyusa.org/...

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Well sure, and Minneapolis and Albuquerque have cops.

Having a capital punishment on the books obviously means something.

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Russia doesn’t need death penalty. All windows in Russia open.

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Sounds like the court of appeals stayed the execution and ordered the prosecutors to consider a new trial.

Not holding my breath. It's Texas, after all, y'all.

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The fact that this is the FIRST I'm hearing about this means one of two things: I'm not reading enough news, or the press in this country is failing their duty. Do you know how sick I am of being ashamed of Texas?

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