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Elizabeth: Right! That’s it. Any last requests, Blackadder, before I chop your block off and put it on top of the crimble tree?

Edmund: [still searching his person, comes across the novelty death warrant] Er, well, there is one, actually, Ma’am: You know how much I’ve always been a great admirer [motions his hand to and fro between her and Melchett] of you both — I was wondering if I could just have your autographs, erm, to keep me company during the final, tragic, lonely hours… [he already has handed her a quill]

Elizabeth: Oh, all right. [signs]

Edmund: Ah, there. Thank you, Ma’am. [moves to Melchett] And, Lord Melchett [gives him the quill] …just there… [Melchett signs] Thank– [looks astonished] Oh! Dear me!

Elizabeth: What is it?

Edmund: Why, this piece of paper that Your Majesty has just signed turns out to be some sort of death warrant!

Elizabeth: Oops. …and I can’t go back on it without destroying the whole basis of the British Constitution…

Edmund: I fear not!

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Ta, Robyn. There are things about this country I love, and things I loathe. The death penalty falls into the latter category, and this story exemplifies why, apart from the whole murder thing.

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The landscape is very pretty. And most of the people are very nice.

Uhmm... good books, music, and especially movies?

That's all for me. But I'm not a local so you probably know more than I do.

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Lawful evil is a thing.

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I left that kind of thinking behind when I stopped playing D&D.

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Sometimes role playing a situation several times gives people a better sense of options and how other people might view the same situation within a safe environment. It's one tool to use within a set of other tools.

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It’s the default of alignment of republicans.

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Lot's of Chaotic and Neutral Evil people are Republican, too.

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" So, just to be clear, he wanted to keep an innocent man in prison on the grounds that freeing him would make people think the state kept innocent people in prison."

And executing them would not make people think that the state executes innocent people perhaps?

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Nauseating...

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Reminding us all that it’s a “legal system,” not a “justice system.”

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Rat bastards.

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There are many prosecutors and judges who should be put to death for the safety of the public.

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If you don't kill a few here and there every once in a while they stop taking the "power of life or death" thing seriously and here we are.

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They're just so damned bloodthirsty. This whole country is bloodthirsty and revenge driven and I've never understood having so much malice for people who haven't wronged you personally.

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A horrifying story. Death to the death penalty! Even when dealt out to the guilty, it is barbaric — and not, apparently, much of a deterrent.

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Arguably it is a deterrent to leaving witnesses alive.

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A prosecuting attorney is trying to save an innocent man's life? Quick fire that person. Or impeach. Or whatever the GOP is doing these days to DAs that are sufficiently cruel.

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"Prosecutors in Dallas have said for years - any prosecutor can convict a guilty man. It takes a great prosecutor to convict an innocent man."

--Melvyn Carson Bruder

From the extraordinary documentary "The Thin Blue Line".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096257

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"Law & Order" had Jack McCoy deliver a similar line when he realized that he had convicted an innocent man. (TBF, he meant it as a grim joke.)

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Curious if they executed Andrew Vrba for sadistic murder & burning a corpse by the side of Malberg Road. Nope, he got life. Ain't no justice in this land.

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2020/11/20/texas-county-man-sentenced-life-2017-murder-transgender-teen/6355776002/

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The sadistic glee of the unreconstructed people controlling these systems of torture and vengeance is something else!

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It's ghoulish and sickening.

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The American "justice" system is a cruel, sick joke.

Land of the free my white ass.

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