The US Department of Justice has expanded rules governing executions to permit a wider rage of methods, including firing squads and electrocution, as five federal inmates are set to face the death penalty before Inauguration Day.
I'd never heard of Stinney before and I looked it up.
I've never felt more disgusted in my life. But then again, that's America for ya. Execute a 14 year old boy on no evidence whatsoever.
And of course people will just say "Well the cops say he confessed" as if that's a fucking bit of proof. And again this was like... 80 years ago. His mother died in 1989. This is fucking close to living memory for some people.
Edit: I wrote this post before I finished the wikipedia article and I swear I nearly popped a fucking blood vessel when I read this
Mullen confined her judgment to the process of the prosecution, noting that Stinney "may well have committed this crime." With reference to the legal process, Mullen wrote, "No one can justify a 14-year-old child charged, tried, convicted and executed in some 80 days," concluding that, "In essence, not much was done for this child when his life lay in the balance."
The fucking mistake wasn't executing a child who had no connection to a crime, it was that the process was sketchy. Fuck me.
First time I ever read about that case was when I was in high school and it sent chills down my spine and just horrified me to such an extent. That was over 10 years ago, and ever since, I get angry any time I think about it.
And of course people will just say “Well the cops say he confessed” as if that’s a fucking bit of proof.
The people that say this never want to talk about how police interrogations are literally mental torture. The lie detector/Polygraph test is an arcane pseudoscience machine that really can't determine anything, other than torturing someone. Cops get confessions by spending 10-12 hours at a time intimidating people and playing mind games with them to make them have mental breakdowns.
The fucking mistake wasn’t executing a child who had no connection to a crime, it was that the process was sketchy. Fuck me.
That's liberalism for you. All about the process and the system that they worry about. They offer band aid solutions to fix things in the system. Nothing about the actual victims and people who suffer, not even a child like him.
I'd never heard of Stinney before and I looked it up.
I've never felt more disgusted in my life. But then again, that's America for ya. Execute a 14 year old boy on no evidence whatsoever.
And of course people will just say "Well the cops say he confessed" as if that's a fucking bit of proof. And again this was like... 80 years ago. His mother died in 1989. This is fucking close to living memory for some people.
Edit: I wrote this post before I finished the wikipedia article and I swear I nearly popped a fucking blood vessel when I read this
The fucking mistake wasn't executing a child who had no connection to a crime, it was that the process was sketchy. Fuck me.
First time I ever read about that case was when I was in high school and it sent chills down my spine and just horrified me to such an extent. That was over 10 years ago, and ever since, I get angry any time I think about it.
The people that say this never want to talk about how police interrogations are literally mental torture. The lie detector/Polygraph test is an arcane pseudoscience machine that really can't determine anything, other than torturing someone. Cops get confessions by spending 10-12 hours at a time intimidating people and playing mind games with them to make them have mental breakdowns.
That's liberalism for you. All about the process and the system that they worry about. They offer band aid solutions to fix things in the system. Nothing about the actual victims and people who suffer, not even a child like him.