Washington state launches effort to become 20th state to ban the death penalty

[junior chįmp]

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[UncleSam]

While I support the death penalty in theory, in practice it simply very rarely is used and costs crazy amounts of money due to numerous national pro bono groups etc. glad this bill is being put forth and I hope it passes

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

I'm surprised it isn't already banned there. You'd think WA along with OR would have been the very first to ban it.

[Pyro]

Good. I hope it passes.

[TDAS04]

I'm surprised it isn't already banned there. You'd think WA along with OR would have been the very first to ban it.

The West has a strong "law and order" streak.  Look at California. 

[KingSweden]

Proud of my state. Time for the death penalty to end.

[Crumpets]

I support this. While I would ideally keep the death penalty legal in the rarest of cases, that is not how it is used in the United States, and I think it should be abolished.

[Middle-aged Europe]

About time.

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

Good, but I won't be happy until it's banned in all 50 states.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

I'm surprised it isn't already banned there. You'd think WA along with OR would have been the very first to ban it.

The West has a strong "law and order" streak.  Look at California. 

But the Pacific Northwest has been the most socially liberal region in the country, at least in recent decades.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Whatever.  With a few exceptions the states that have it don't execute anyone to begin with.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I'm surprised it isn't already banned there. You'd think WA along with OR would have been the very first to ban it.

The West has a strong "law and order" streak.  Look at California. 

But the Pacific Northwest has been the most socially liberal region in the country, at least in recent decades.

- Oregon was a state that rejected giving illegal immigrants driver licenses by nearly a 2:1 vote :

https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Alternative_Driver_Licenses_Referendum,_Measure_88_(2014)


- Oregon rejected GMO labeling in 2014: https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Mandatory_Labeling_of_GMOs_Initiative,_Measure_92_(2014)

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

GMO labeling is mostly advocated by conservative aligned conspiracy theorists.

Most liberals oppose GMO labeling (Sanders is an exception).

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

I'm surprised it isn't already banned there. You'd think WA along with OR would have been the very first to ban it.

The West has a strong "law and order" streak.  Look at California. 

But the Pacific Northwest has been the most socially liberal region in the country, at least in recent decades.

- Oregon was a state that rejected giving illegal immigrants driver licenses by nearly a 2:1 vote :

https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Alternative_Driver_Licenses_Referendum,_Measure_88_(2014)


- Oregon rejected GMO labeling in 2014: https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Mandatory_Labeling_of_GMOs_Initiative,_Measure_92_(2014)

There are very few states that wouldn't reject giving illegal immigrants drivers licenses. That's not a great way to measure.

[Bismarck]

GMO labeling is mostly advocated by conservative aligned conspiracy theorists.

Most liberals oppose GMO labeling (Sanders is an exception).

Eh I’m not sure about that. Other than the scientists and breeders who develope gm crops, the most pro gmo people are conservative farmers.

[Sumner 1868]

GMO labeling is mostly advocated by conservative aligned conspiracy theorists.

Most liberals oppose GMO labeling (Sanders is an exception).

The referenda on the coast suggest otherwise. It is true that "science or else" has begun gradually replacing "small is beautiful" on the left generationally but on the whole green values are still dominate.

[junior chįmp]

A bill proposing the abolition of Washington’s death penalty has been voted out of a state Senate committee.

[KingSweden]

GMO labeling is mostly advocated by conservative aligned conspiracy theorists.

Most liberals oppose GMO labeling (Sanders is an exception).

That has most certainly not been my experience. Most liberals, no, but there’s a strain (pun intended) of arch-progressives who support GMO labeling. They also tend to be anti-vaxxers

[OSR stands with Israel]

GMO labeling is mostly advocated by conservative aligned conspiracy theorists.

Most liberals oppose GMO labeling (Sanders is an exception).

Mre than Half the Countries in Europe banned GMO's : https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28283-more-than-half-of-european-union-votes-to-ban-growing-gm-crops/



I would say its definitely advocated more by liberals than conservatives.

[Indy Texas]

I'm surprised it isn't already banned there. You'd think WA along with OR would have been the very first to ban it.

The West has a strong "law and order" streak.  Look at California. 

But the Pacific Northwest has been the most socially liberal region in the country, at least in recent decades.

Oregon was basically founded to be a whites-only state. Lots of ugly racial history there.

[Indy Texas]

One of the surprising things is that West Virginia doesn't have the death penalty.

[Bojack Horseman]

I’m glad. The death penalty does nothing to reduce crime, and I’m proud to say that my god and my church will stand behind this effort.

[OSR stands with Israel]

One of the surprising things is that West Virginia doesn't have the death penalty.

On Crime issues, I would say West Virginia never was that Conservative. Just look at the 1988 election

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

One of the surprising things is that West Virginia doesn't have the death penalty.

On Crime issues, I would say West Virginia never was that Conservative. Just look at the 1988 election

Yes it was, and is. Dukakis won the state because there was still a huge number of ancestral Democrats who refused to vote for any Republican for President largely based on tradition and family history.

[Indy Texas]

One of the surprising things is that West Virginia doesn't have the death penalty.

On Crime issues, I would say West Virginia never was that Conservative. Just look at the 1988 election

I think Reagan's War on Coal killing all those coal jobs in the 1980s is a better explanation.