I'm just so surprised that in addition to not deterring crime at all (and possibly making it marginally worse), not being humane whatsoever, and being far, far more expensive, it's also completely wrong all the time.

Anyone who still supports ~~the death penalty~~ state-sanctioned murder at this point is either grossly mis-/underinformed or is a "but it's fine as long as we make really, really sure they did it!" person (not realizing there's a decades-long appeal process or that administrations who use it don't actually give a shit about the certainty of a conviction). That, or revenge just makes their pp hard and they genuinely don't care about the fact it's categorically worse in every way.

Disgusting. I don't have the words.

I don't have the words because I have 0 doubt that this man will be dead in less that 11 hours.

No fucking way some republican governor in South Carolina is going to spare the life of a black man this close to an election that could damn well bring back slavery.

Abhorrent.

This whole thing reeks of corruption:

South Carolina recently resumed executions after a 13-year pause due to a lack of lethal injection supplies and challenges to its other proposed methods, of electrocution and firing squads. The state restocked pentobarbital, a sedative, after it passed a law to shield the identities of companies supplying the drug, which had feared public backlash.

The state supreme court has authorized the scheduling of executions roughly every five weeks, an extraordinary pace that lawyers argued would strain attorneys representing multiple defendants and risk botched executions due to the rushed process.

100% racism

What would you not do to save a life? Would you not break the law? Would you not interfere with "official proceedings"? "Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-political class in a given nation." Fight back.

The system is broken and will continue to be broken until something fundamentally changes, but there are too many in power who only care about maintaining their power.

Why does the governor have any say in the judicial system? That's fucked

And now he's dead.

This should have been a few years unfortunately he stole money after the gun was fired several times in the struggle. The clerk dying made the whole thing a much bigger problem. I'll definitely agree this man should not be on death row. I do think he deserved a stint in prison for robbery, and unfortunately the moment he gained enough control of the weapon to "defend" himself it was now armed robbery that ended in a murder. If he would have left without taking any money this would all be a much different story. He could have plead self defense. The money is what made all the other charges stick.

Am I not seeing the whole picture? Again, I don't think he should be executed.

LPT: Don’t murder people