Criminal certainly. Justice? Hardly.

Now, new research suggests making it harder for offenders to find a place to live might increase reoffending. In a study released in July 2016, researchers from the California and Canadian justice departments looked at more than 1,600 California sex offenders on probation or parole. Overall, the group’s sex-crime…

Oh? Singapore’s and Japan’s maintain, and can be guaranteed to maintain, 100% accuracy in convictions at all times? There are not any disparities, ever, between the sentencing of individuals convicted of similar crimes under similar circumstances?

Why not a registry for murderers, drunk drivers, and people who have been convicted of unsafe or reckless use of firearms, then?

Politicians are all so boring and predicable. It’s always an affair or some shady money. I wish they’d be more creative; America deserves better.

Actually no. For example, in Florida, you must live 1500 yards from any place that has any children. In practicality there are no dwellings that aren’t in the swamp that meet that requirement. There were a bunch of sex offenders living under a bridge because there was no where else for them to go. That’ll help…

Eighteen year old lures and assaults a fifteen year old. Three years later, he’s been in jail for all of two months, and only because he violated his probation. Vanity Fair does a cover story on how sad his life is. Professor compares him to Joan of Arc. Lawyers are still appealing.

I once read that prisons have trouble finding medical professionals willing to take part in lethal injections. I never before thought about how traumatic it must be for someone to take part in an execution, but you are possibly right about that. It’s yet another reason states should be really cautious about…

EXACTLY. I have no respect for the lack of humanity that led to older civilizations intentionally causing suffering for their condemned. But I have a grudging respect for their lack of hypcrisy - execution is in and of itself nothing more than a brutal act of vengeance and terror, let’s not pretend it is not so.

You know, I am very disappointed in myself. You are the second person in this thread to point out that these inmates were convicted of horrible crimes. As I explained above, I had thought they were all puppy huggers and rainbow lickers. That is why I was anti-death penalty. I had no idea there were MURDERERS on death…

>I rarely label myself as a feminist, but for me, punishing men who have preyed on the most vulnerable and weak women they could find, is a feminist issue

“Ipersonally favour the shooting squad, as it’s efficient, quick and spares us all the hand wringing over the pain caused by lethal injections, but I won’t be losing any sleep over these men whichever way they go.”

I think that if we as a society have decided that we are okay with the state executing criminals, we shouldn’t try to make ourselves feel better about it by using “humane” methods such as lethal injection. There is nothing humane about it, and mistakes often lead to far more suffering than more gruesome but quicker…

None of that is a reason why more DNA testing shouldn’t be done.

Wait, these guys on death row were convicted of horrible crimes????!!!!!!? HOLY SHIT!!!! Why didn’t anyone tell me? All these years I’ve been anti-death penalty I thought people got put there for hugging puppies and dreaming of what a rainbow might taste like. I am shocked...SHOCKED...to hear that the crimes of…

Of course it will! Something something something something.

I think they’re subscribing to the notion of “if they didn’t do that crime, they must be guilty of something else”.

Undoubtably, it was a brutal murder.

This is seriously barbaric, and I really hope none of these are able to go through as planned. I’m still surprised the state was able to find enough witnesses.