Red states are using the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade to expand the death penalty

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Red states are using the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade to expand the death penalty

Even as support for the death penalty wanes across the country, Republican governors, led by Florida’s Ron DeSantis, are signing into law legislation expanding the death penalty.

Earlier this month, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a bill authorizing the death penalty for aggravated rape of a child. The law goes into effect on July 1. Lee’s decision makes Tennessee the second state, following Florida, to apply capital punishment to cases where no one is killed. A third red state, Idaho, is now considering similar legislation.

These laws, as the Death Penalty Information Center explains, “contradict longstanding Supreme Court precedent holding the death penalty unconstitutional for non-homicide crimes.” In fact, they are intended to tee up a case allowing the Supreme Court’s conservative, activist majority to overturn long-established precedent, just as it has done in other high-profile cases.

Proponents of the new laws hope that the court will extend the reach of capital punishment. They also hope to put death penalty opponents on the defensive by painting them as soft-on-crime defenders of child rapists.

Death penalty opponents must work hard to avoid falling into that trap. Their best political strategy, though it might not be a winning legal strategy, will be to say that the court should respect its own precedent rather than mounting a full-fledged campaign to explain why child rapists should not be put to death.

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1. PRO LIFERS ADVOCATING MURDER

Part of their charm offensive. Mandating the death penalty is the easy way for simple minds feeding on hatred.

I’m opposed to the death penalty and often wonder if that is the worst punishment a person could get compared to life in prison zero parole.

Maybe child rapists should not be put to death BECAUSE LIFE IN PRISON WOULD BE HELL ON EARTH FOR 30+ YEARS. THEN THEY DIE AND GO TO HELL.

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2. "Pro Life" my ass.

I often refer to the self-named "Pro Lifers" as pro death. Partly because there is a vast overlap of the Venn circles of "anti abortion" and "pro killing people that might be innocent but got judged guilty by a jury". Also because anti-abortion also leads to death of the woman carrying the non-viable fetus.

In this case they are just piling on the justification for being called Pro Death.

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3. how can anyone not get that christo-fascists are just another death cult?