Kelly Gissendaner Executed

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

If we're to have the death penalty, then this is exactly the sort of case it should be used in. Just because she got someone else to do the physical deed does not make her any less guilty of premeditated murder. If it didn't, then by that logic Hitler didn't personally kill any Roma, so he shouldn't be held responsible for the Porajmos.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

You can be convicted of murder for telling someone else to commit it? Shouldn't that be a different category of crime?

The US criminal system continues to be an utter disaster.

For me it's not even that. She's clearly guilty not withstanding the categorisation. It's the fact she gets executed and the person who killed doesn't despite being found guilty. It's absurd.

Now that I can agree with, at least in this case where there is a single murder with little chance of repetition. Going back to my deliberately over-the-top Hitler analogy, I'd have no problems with a particular murder avoiding the death penalty, if needed to convict the instigator of multiple murders of a capital crime.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Meanwhile in Oklahoma, the state is preparing to kill Richard Glossip, a man who damn well may be innocent. The police told the guy who killed his boss that they'd take the death penalty off the table if he implicated someone else. So he said his coworker paid him to do it. Glossip was convicted solely on the testimony of that guy, and Mary Fallin refuses to even commute his sentence to life without parole.

I don't care if I get death points for this, but Mary Fallin is a cold-hearted bitch who now has blood on her hands. Whatever happened to "Better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer?"

Republicanism? That said, I'd want stronger evidence of innocence to overturn a jury verdict than is present in that case.