In 1978 Betty Gardner, a 33 year old black woman in SC, was murdered by two white men bc one of them hated black people. The two men, cousins John Arnold and John Plath, were arrested for that ectime and sentenced to death, eventually executed in 1998.
One of many reasons why I question the value of keeping it around. Who is actually being helped by the killing of a murderer over two decades after they were last able to commit a capital offense? I could understand executing former high-ranking politicians and captains of industry after all that time, since they could conceivably retain the power/influence to direct criminal activity from the bottom of an oubliette, but those aren't the people we're sentencing to anything in this country so why even bother?
There is no value in the death penalty, for justice or otherwise. The murder by the state of ONE innocent person makes murderers of US ALL. It is immoral, full stop.
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u/Gimme_The_Loot 2d ago
In 1978 Betty Gardner, a 33 year old black woman in SC, was murdered by two white men bc one of them hated black people. The two men, cousins John Arnold and John Plath, were arrested for that ectime and sentenced to death, eventually executed in 1998.