Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by runarberg on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:51PM (#25850306)

Even if you are right, there is also therapy, house arrest, 24 hour monitoring, etc.

Prison is not the only option by a long shot.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by philwelch on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:39PM (#25852349)

I strongly agree that prison isn't the only option. At the same time, I can't support the notion that Charles Manson, Timothy McVeigh, Dylann Roof, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should all be free men today.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by runarberg on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:08PM (#25852633)

Be that as it may, and maybe they shouldn’t be free. But I don’t think they should be in prison either. You can have your freedom punitively stripped away from you without being held in prison.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by philwelch on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:39PM (#25852920)

I agree they shouldn't be in prison. They should be dead. One of them is.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by jackson1442 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:31PM (#25855034)

The problem with capitol punishment is that it's irrevocable. Even though we know these people committed these heinous crimes, there's going to be a line for where it's not ok to sentence someone to death because the proof is not airtight. When cases are close to that line, there's always the chance that they weren't actually guilty. I believe this will be the case no matter where that line is.

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