What a disastrous month for US Americans! First Iran continues to hold Trump for the clown he is, then the execution of a criminal fails (huh?), then the government needs to beg for diesel fuel from G7, and finally the word “Trump” falls of the collapsing Kennedy Center. It’s a joke.
Damn, they fucked this up in so many ways.
Pretty soon it will be cruel and unusual punishment to be sentenced to death row in Tennessee.
Capital punishment is already cruel and unusual punishment
Is it though? The framework to give out that kind of judicial analysis is based on historical evidence, and death sentences are far from being historically unusual or of particular cruelty (not all of them at least).
She lured, tortured and killed a teen; I really don’t see an argument where the sentence she received is unfair, or cruel. I think there is a strong argument against the death penalty when we know justice sometimes condemn innocents, but she’s not of those cases, she bragged of the murder and carried around a piece of her victim’s skull as a boast.
The governor has put a stay on all executions until further notice.
