Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace

Re:Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace by kelseyfrog on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:43PM (#48750560)

We seem to be incapable of creating a perfect predictor - there will always be false positives. How do you square the moral implications of killing people by chance?

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Re:Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace by antonymoose on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:03PM (#48750856)

I’ve long seen this class of conversation on HN and my answer is always the same: introduce a higher burden of proof, maybe even “no doubt,” for capital punishment.

Imagine a scenario where the Pulse nightclub shooter surrendered to police and was on death row now. There is no doubt at all that he did the killing. Why waste calories concerned for a demon like that?

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Re:Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace by worried4future on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:04PM (#48753718)

I'm fine with that if we can remove the technical error rate and barriers to actually executing these people.

If you're caught in a situation like this you should not be in jail on death row for twenty years waiting for your execution while your lawyers try to find some narrow legal loophole to postpone your execution.

E.g. Iryna Zarutska's killer (Decarlos Dejuan Brown). He should be dead already.

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Re:Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace by worried4future on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:01PM (#48753692)

I do not seek perfection.

We have a justice system which makes those determinations, its not about perfection, it never has been.

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Re:Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace by kelseyfrog on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @11:57PM (#48756387)

How do you deal with innocents being killed by the state? The cost of doing business? Something else?

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Re:Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace by nielsbot on Thursday July 02, 2026 @12:20AM (#48756525)

So murdering innocent people is just the cost of doing business? That’s inhumane and fucked.

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