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What would you like techsupporter to do? Drive down to the prisons and personally tear down the bars? "So long as Texas keeps executing people, I don't see wha

• intopieces 10y ago
  >What would you like techsupporter to do? Drive down to the prisons and personally tear down the bars? The perceived inability of one does not excuse the lack of action by the many, especially if the techsupporter's assertion is true -- that not many Texans support the death penalty. I suspect that, given California couldn't even replace it with life imprisonment (it failed 52-48 with Prop 34 in 2012), the considerably more conservative state of Texas has at least a simple majority support for the death penalty. >"So long as Texas keeps executing people, I don't see what difference it makes how many [Americans] are in favor of it." I agree wholeheartedly.
• jdietrich 10y ago
  Honest question: how many people are actively protesting against the death penalty in Texas? A cursory search shows one annual march and protests on the day of executions, with turnouts in the low tens. From the outside looking in, it seems that most Texans who oppose the death penalty are either indifferent or resigned to the issue. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I find very little evidence of a credible abolition movement. Without sustained political pressure, disapproval counts for very little.
  • alex_young 10y ago
    Why does the popularity of a form of punishment matter so much? If the death penalty is unjust, inhumane, and unequally applied, isn't it also then both crual and unusual? The standard we apply in our justice system is not one of popular opinion.