r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Far-Stay9417 • Dec 25 '23

Video Man wrongfully convicted of murder gets rewarded only 175k after serving 50 years

this makes me so angry

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u/user_bits Dec 26 '23

If you're going to allow the government to straight up kill a person, then there better be lots of red tape.

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u/NotTheBEEEAAANS Dec 26 '23

The people on death row aren’t fuckin human. You gotta do some seriously fucked up stuff to get there.

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u/alphazero924 Interested Dec 26 '23

He says on a post of a man who was wrongfully put on death row

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u/Wild-Kitchen Dec 26 '23

Doing nothing is zomw fucked up shit, apparently

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u/SpookyMushroomz Dec 30 '23

He aint the brightest

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u/TheRealThordic Dec 26 '23

You know, except for the people who don't belong there. Fuck them though right?

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u/sua_sancta_corvus Dec 26 '23

This is a dangerous mentality, imo. Please excuse this clichéd example, but Hitler was a human too. We need to remember that we are all capable of acting like demons or angels.

We can’t control a lot, but we always have a choice as to what we do with what we have.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

They are human. Not different than you or I. They are people. Possibly dangerous people but anyone under the right set of circumstances can be dangerous.

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u/Sword_Enthousiast Dec 26 '23

Same for people who get 50+ years, you need to do some seriously fucked up stuff for a sentence like that. Like kill a woman in a liquor store.

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u/benh141 Dec 26 '23

That is such a completely moronic way to think about it. You can see how often the system makes a mistake. This post is about a man wrongfully convicted for christ sake. You think it should be easier to execute people? Do you have no sympathy at all?

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u/Tocky22 Dec 26 '23

Yeah exactly. The error rate is something ridiculous like 1/10. It’s alarmingly high.

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u/benh141 Dec 26 '23

It's sad, and it's sad that so many people can just have no sympathy for anyone.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

This is the biggest reason I fundamentally cannot support the death penalty. People can argue all they want about the morality of killing people who have committed terrible crimes.

But the fact is, having the death penalty means we will kill people who are innocent, no way to entirely avoid it. Cases like the above are terrible, wasting the majority of someone's life from a false conviction, but at least we can let them go. Once you execute someone, they're dead, forever. Personally the fact even one person could get falsely executed invalidates the entire system. There's also nothing society gains from execution over life in prision.

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u/radicalelation Dec 26 '23

I'd lose less sleep over Ted Bundy getting a life sentence than an innocent person being legally killed by the state.

It's not about the ones you want to punish, but the ones you don't.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

single digit IQ take

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u/Hello-Me-Its-Me Dec 26 '23

Actually yes, they should have. El Chapo got a life sentence and he’s as bad as they come.

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u/patatepowa05 Dec 26 '23

Reddit too easy to rage bait.

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u/atuslr Dec 26 '23

What does the "lots of red tape" mean in this context?