Kelly Gissendaner Executed

[DemPGH]

An embarrassing mockery of justice. Something like this would absolutely happen in some godforsaken third world country which we would claim moral authority over or something. Awful.

[DemPGH]

The death penalty is imposed so capriciously that it has no value as a deterrent. It is revenge only.

That's pretty much my sentiment, but I'm to the point now where I don't think I can give the death penalty that much credit since there's a percentage of completely innocent people on death row with the state showing no interest in getting it right. In this case everyone knew she wasn't the actual killer. So, it's just the state committing murder as a show of force, really. That's all the credit I'm willing to give the death penalty. The state commits murder as a show of force.

[DemPGH]

That's pretty much my sentiment, but I'm to the point now where I don't think I can give the death penalty that much credit since there's a percentage of completely innocent people on death row with the state showing no interest in getting it right. In this case everyone knew she wasn't the actual killer.

The woman isn't innocent.  We all know she convinced this guy to kill her husband.  Secondly it was her choice to enter into this plot to kill her husband.  The state did not force her into this murder plot. 

Of course she's not "innocent," but she didn't pull the trigger!! If we're going to execute people who don't pull the trigger, we're in Fascist territory. They don't execute Mob chiefs for ordering like 50 hits, they throw them in jail. Which is why the death penalty is the most obscenely unfair measure of justice in our society. "She was a mastermind." LOL. B.S. She masterminded nothing. The guy made a choice to kill her husband.