More federal US executions in 2020 than the last 56 years.

[tillingborn]

"More federal prisoners have been executed in the US this year, than in the previous 56 years combined." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFNWGQ_3X4 That represents a 56 fold change in something. Perhaps 56 times as many Americans have been convicted of crimes that have historically resulted in their death. At the other end of the scale, perhaps American justice is 56 times more likely to think a crime warrants execution. Who knows? But here is one person who is going to die while we think about it: https://www.themarshallproject.org/next-to-die

[Walker]

What is his crime?

[henry quirk]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/executio ... -years-ago

Alfred Bourgeois abused, tortured, and beat to death his young daughter. After a paternity test identified Bourgeois as the father of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl and a court ordered that he pay child support to the mother, Bourgeois took temporary custody of his daughter and brought her with him on a trucking route. While on the trip, Bourgeois systematically abused and tortured her — including by punching her in the face, whipping her with an electrical cord, and burning the bottom of her foot with a cigarette lighter. In July 2002, Bourgeois arrived at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station for a delivery. While backing his truck up to a loading dock, his daughter tipped over her training potty. Bourgeois became enraged and repeatedly slammed the back of her head into the truck’s window and dashboard, killing her. On March 16, 2004, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas found Bourgeois guilty of murder within the special territorial jurisdiction of the United States, and unanimously recommended a death sentence, which the court imposed. His conviction and sentence were affirmed on appeal, and his requests for collateral relief were ultimately rejected by federal courts. In July 2019, his execution was scheduled for Jan. 13, 2020, but legal impediments prevented the government from proceeding at that time. Bourgeois is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Dec. 11, 2020, at the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, Indiana

[Walker]

Is the OP asserting that this would not warrant execution for the past 57 years?

Or, is it asserting something else.

[henry quirk]

Is the OP asserting that this would not warrant execution for the past 57 years?

Or, is it asserting something else.

hell if I know

what I do know: Bourgeois, based on the description I posted, deserves to ride the lightnin'

[tillingborn]

Is the OP asserting that this would not warrant execution for the past 57 years?

Or, is it asserting something else.

As the author of the OP, I think I can speak for it. I am not asserting anything about what crimes have warranted federal execution in the last 57 years; I am just referring to a link I watched, which claimed that as many people have been executed by federal law this year, as in the previous 56. A range of responses occurs to me that falls within these bands:
1. 56 times as many people have been found guilty of doing things they should die for.
2. There are 56 times as many things that people found guilty of doing should die for.

[Impenitent]

all of these criminals were convicted long before 2020 and have been running appeals for the last 10+ years

-Imp

[Skip]

Trump has to throw some bones to his fan club.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Is the OP asserting that this would not warrant execution for the past 57 years?

Or, is it asserting something else.

hell if I know

what I do know: Bourgeois, based on the description I posted, deserves to ride the lightnin'

That's not the point of opposition to the death penalty. Of course he deserves it. No one would dispute that! But there are a hell of a lot of wrongly convicted people who have been executed--and it could happen to anyone. Sometimes it is just a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Knowing how stupid most people are, I certainly wouldn't want to be judged by any of them.

How ironic that it's the anti-choicers on here who call themselves 'pro-life' who are in favour of the death penalty (and they aren't even embarrassed by that fact). Barefaced hypocrisy.

[Walker]

The distinction is simple.

Capital punishment is deserved punishment.

Abortion is not deserved punishment.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

The distinction is simple.

Capital punishment is deserved punishment.

Abortion is not deserved punishment.

You are simple. So you don't care about innocent people being executed. Got it. Hypocrite.

And until it comes to pass that there is a possibilty that you might be in need of an abortion then kindly keep your big, fat, hypocritical snout out of women's affairs.

[Walker]

Capital punishment is not designed to kill innocent people.

Abortion is designed to kill innocent people.

Is this going to be a name-calling festival, 'cause I got some good ones.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Capital punishment is not designed to kill innocent people.

Abortion is designed to kill innocent people.

Go fuck yourself, hypocrite. Murderers are 'alive' until they are dead. Pro life is pro life. And don't fucking bother answering in your wanky gibberish that you use to cover up your ignorance. It DOESN'T WORK.

[Walker]

The distinction is clear.

Innocents die from capital punishment as the result of human error as defined by unintended consequences.

Innocents die from abortion as the result of intended consequences.

Calling good folks names doesn't change that fact of life.
(Doing such only reveals your fear and ignorance.)

Couldn't be any more clear.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

The distinction is clear.

Innocents die from capital punishment as the result of human error as defined by unintended consequences.

Innocents die from abortion as the result of intended consequences.

Calling good folks names doesn't change that fact of life.
(Doing such only reveals your fear and ignorance.)

Couldn't be any more clear.

That's the idea. Flush the embryos. Job done.