Dylann Roof should not be executed. Sirhan Sirhan should be released. Those are the liberal stances on these cases. If we want savagery to end, we need to stop behaving like savages.
Either you're against the death penalty or you're not. Either you're for making the criminal justice system more humane or you're not. You don't get to decide exceptions for the cases that make you angry.
That doesn't mean you can't have a human reaction, like wanting to strangle that fucker Roof. But it's totally different if the state does it.
I honestly didn't expect the death penalty part of this to be even a question. Opposition to capital punishment has been a strong tenet of liberalism for my entire life. That many people who consider them on the left would even entertain keeping it is sad and weird.
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