Yeah, so I guess the DoJ's perspective is "we have to make an example out of him" as a response to the "extraordinarily alarming" rhetoric on social media? How is that the defendant's fault? In what way does that justify the death penalty?
How many school shooters, who have massacred children, received the death penalty?
For that matter, I could go online and find "extraordinarily alarming" rhetoric around our contemporary lynchings (that being of pro-lynching rhetoric ambient in online discourse) and yet we haven't sentence Zimmerman to death have we? That wasn't even on the table?
Yeah, so I guess the DoJ's perspective is "we have to make an example out of him" as a response to the "extraordinarily alarming" rhetoric on social media? How is that the defendant's fault? In what way does that justify the death penalty?
How many school shooters, who have massacred children, received the death penalty?
For that matter, I could go online and find "extraordinarily alarming" rhetoric around our contemporary lynchings (that being of pro-lynching rhetoric ambient in online discourse) and yet we haven't sentence Zimmerman to death have we? That wasn't even on the table?
I'm thinking about this too much