Gov. Inslee signs bill to repeal death penalty in Washington

Re:Gov. Inslee signs bill to repeal death penalty in Washington by BizarroLand on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:41PM (#35648059)

Exactly. If you kill someone in front of two surviving witnesses and it is caught on a well-lit good definition video, sure, that's beyond any reasonable doubt, execute away.

Short of that? Nah, let's err on the side of caution and not go around executing potentially innocent people, please.

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Re:Gov. Inslee signs bill to repeal death penalty in Washington by paxys on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:48PM (#35648099)

What if the two witnesses were lying? What if the video was deepfaked? Plenty of executions and imprisonments from a few decades ago that were judged "beyond any reasonable doubt" at the time were found to be wrong as soon as DNA testing became a thing, and the racial and other kinds of bias in the justice system became immediately clear. What is the guarantee that the same thing won't happen for any executions done today?

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Re:Gov. Inslee signs bill to repeal death penalty in Washington by fauxpause_ on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:26PM (#35648788)

You are adding layers of doubt. If there is doubt, then you’re not above the bar. It’s as simple as that.

Yes I recognize the post above me used the term “reasonable doubt”.

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