Post #2117569

2026-04-24 19:52 UTC

I don't know, we're already well down that path already - in this context I think its actually one place where it makes sense _if you agree with the death penalty_ I personally do not. 2022 for reference: https://youtu.be/OcgXru3Z3GQ

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@partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 20:11

> I don’t know, we’re already well down that path already I'm not claiming the technology doesn't exist, I'm saying that I don't want the society I live in to fund its expansion and employment by the state against its citizens. Once deployed, it would be trivially easy to employ against not only "the convicted" but any other group the state wanted killed. Even proponents of state level death penalty probably don't want that. >if you agree with the death penalty I personally do not. You and I agree on this. I *might* be onboard with it if we have a way of enforcing it without ever executing an innocent person, and also equal enforcement across groups. The historical data doesn't like. The death penatly is disproportionately applied to people of color, so the system is broken. This means we cannot rightfully have a state level death penalty.

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