On the other, young black men get murdered for doing less than she did to him.

The most surprising thing about this to me is that she reached out to Margaret Cho - like, did they already know each other..? Is Cho the only asian person she could think of?

Now who’s being disingenuous? Can you seriously not understand where I’m coming from? There were voters - a lot of voters - in CA who voted to abolish the death penalty *and* to make it more “efficient,” in the event that the other measure didn’t pass. That cognitive dissonance is real. I’m sorry that I projected that…

I genuinely do not understand how you can reconcile your *personal* view of how the death penalty should be applied with how it is actually being applied in this country, and think “well in this case I’m okay with it.” You even recognize that it’s racist and overly sentenced!

Yeah, the state sure seems really good at exercising discretion in a thoughtful and unbiased way when it comes to the death penalty! Maybe they’re trying to correct you because you’ve already recognized in other comments that the criminal justice system is racist and unjustly sentences people. Of course it’s a black…

What????? Are you talking about??? This is the most bizarre reach?? My point was pretty obviously that, as long as people have their personal exception to the death penalty, they will continue to vote down measures to outlaw it? I live in CA, I do death penalty work, this is real life. This has absolutely nothing to…

But it’s this exact rationale that keeps the death penalty legal.

Do you seriously not understand that being competent to stand trial is not the same as being sane? Our prison system is by far the largest mental health institution we have in this country. Like, fuck him, but being “competent” does not mean that someone shouldn’t have access to actual mental health care/that they’re…

Doctors have the Hippocratic oath, so...

1. I don’t think life without the possibility of parole is a fair or just sentence for a minor. I think they should be afforded the opportunity both to reform and to demonstrate their reform. I don’t think sentencing teenagers to die in prison makes sense, especially when they would still need to demonstrate that they…

my personal favorite

You have absolutely no basis for this other than your own assumptions. His post was no more “the idea of a lunatic” than yours is. Just curious, do you think “most people” who rob are people of means? Do you imagine there are a lot of comfortably middle class folks robbing stores? Or do you believe that poor people…

Thank you so much for always highlighting JDI, Hamilton. I’m currently doing post-conviction work with people sentenced to LWOP sentences as minors - imagine being tried as an adult and sent to adult prison at 15, 16, or 17 years old. Imagine being told you’re going to die in prison before you’re old enough to vote or…

Not to be like, crass or insensitive but... there’s a really good chance they wouldn’t even implant or be viable, right? Like, what if god forbid this asshole gets the right to implant “Emma and Isabella” into a surrogate, and it doesn’t even work? Who’s he gonna sue then, the surrogate?

If you bothered to read it, your points would be answered.

Ha, you clearly didn’t read the whole article either.

What a great quote.

He was going to be released very soon regardless of his appeal. I certainly hope he is still subject to some form of supervision or oversight, though - he’s clearly still a very dangerous person.

The movie itself was trite, and actually pretty racist though? Like, I agree that America doesn’t like discussing race, but there’s no reason a racist person wouldn’t love Crash. My oblivious older relatives thought it was great, because it had scenarios like this: A white cop sexually assaults a black woman, but his…

Honestly, every other nominee was fantastic that year. Brokeback, Munich, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck - I loved Brokeback the most but I would’ve been OK with those other three winning. I was in high school, I was obsessed with film, it was the first year I saw everything nominated.