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gollygee

(22,336 posts) Thu Oct 29, 2015, 09:05 PM Oct 2015

(From Number23) AA Posters and Fam: How do you feel about the death penalty? [View all]

Shaun King of BLM has just put Hillary on blast for her support for the death penalty http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-hillary-clinton-rethink-death-penalty-stance-article-1.2416719?cid=bitly and I'm curious how others here feel about it as well.

(I am posting because I have a donor star and can make a poll)

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	Love it
	0 (0%)
	Like it
	0 (0%)
	Dislike it
	2 (15%)
	Hate it
	9 (69%)
	It's a necessary evil
	0 (0%)
	It's all kinds of fucked up. I know it's racist as hell, classist (like just about everything else in American culture) and screwed up but then I read stories about people murdering children and entire families of people and I just can't see getting rid of it.
	2 (15%)
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(From Number23) AA Posters and Fam: How do you feel about the death penalty? [View all] gollygee Oct 2015 OP

It's a reason why I'm supporting O'Malley JustAnotherGen Oct 2015 #1

I'd like to hear 23's thoughts portlander23 Oct 2015 #2

She. nt scarletwoman Oct 2015 #3

Well that explains why she's so on the ball portlander23 Oct 2015 #4

Can I ask, JAG Chitown Kev Oct 2015 #6

He's from Italy JustAnotherGen Oct 2015 #17

Amanda Knox? Chitown Kev Oct 2015 #30

I really hate it. bravenak Oct 2015 #5

I'm also in favor of chemical castration for pedophiles Number23 Oct 2015 #10

Me too. bravenak Oct 2015 #13

How is that one form of crime immune from the general fucked uppedness? TheKentuckian Oct 2015 #38

As usual, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about or what you are trying to say Number23 Nov 2015 #41

Chemical castration aka the subject of the post I responded too, what is it to not understand? TheKentuckian Nov 2015 #42

This is difficult. I don't approve of the death penalty on general principles - the main one being, scarletwoman Oct 2015 #7

The reason Option 5 is so long and tortured is because it pretty much expresses how I feel about it Number23 Oct 2015 #8

What I think of Chitown Kev Oct 2015 #9

And Dahmer wound up meeting even more justice once he got to jail Number23 Oct 2015 #11

Don't EVEN get me started on that part... Chitown Kev Oct 2015 #12

So it was three women?? I thought it was one older black woman Number23 Oct 2015 #14

I recall three women Chitown Kev Oct 2015 #15

I can no longer support the dp gwheezie Oct 2015 #16

Hate it for so many reasons. NuclearDem Oct 2015 #18

Good points, NuclearDem. Kind of Blue Oct 2015 #22

No, bad. Uncivilized, wrong, abolish it and then you dont need to talk about it anymore randys1 Oct 2015 #19

You give me hope, randys1! Kind of Blue Oct 2015 #20

Back atcha brother. randys1 Oct 2015 #21

KB is a sister, randy! A beautiful, intelligent, spectacular sister Number23 Oct 2015 #33

Thanks, nice to know who I am talking to, watch me forget though LOL randys1 Oct 2015 #34

Sorry, randys! Kind of Blue Oct 2015 #36

Oooh...Thank You, Number23! Kind of Blue Oct 2015 #37

Girl, you know all of that is nothing but the truth. Number23 Oct 2015 #39

Well, sista... Kind of Blue Oct 2015 #35

I'm for human life JustAnotherGen Oct 2015 #23

There are people so evil I don't want them to be alive Starry Messenger Oct 2015 #24

"But we've gotten this wrong so often, and the process is so horrible," Number23 Oct 2015 #25

I know, there are some sick freaks. Starry Messenger Oct 2015 #26

I agree with this. Tarheel_Dem Oct 2015 #27

Illinois banned the death penalty a few years ago. greatauntoftriplets Oct 2015 #28

I oppose the DP in all cases nt MrScorpio Oct 2015 #29

Innocent people are on death row. kwassa Oct 2015 #31

Hate it. betsuni Oct 2015 #32

I'm totally opposed to it. Cali_Democrat Oct 2015 #40