Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 01/10/20263) THE INACCURACY A nonzero number of executed people have been posthumously exonerated with new evidence. The number of innocent people killed by the government on a calm, calculated schedule really ought to be zero. 1160
Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 01/10/20264) RELIGION This is more personal to me than general to governance, but as someone whose main religious guidance comes from a man who was wrongly executed, it feels important to mention. I really do think Jesus would have opposed capital punishment. 1161
Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 01/10/20265) IT DOES NOT SOLVE If the government is going to kill citizens to bring down crime rates, I wish it at least brought crime rates down. But it doesn’t. Maybe there’s been new research since Dane Archer back in the 80s, but his idea that people identify more with the executioner than the dead… 1160
