Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen

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    or even pardoned if they suffered greatly

    Uh, no.

    I think you may be underestimating the types of people on death row and the crimes they have committed. Which is understandable as most people don’t really encounter people like that and don’t really consider the true horror the crimes committed

    These people (and I’m assuming guilt has been correctly assigned here for the purposes of the argument) have committed horrific crimes. Raping and murdering children, wiping out entire familys, abudction then torture then murder, those kinds of things.

    For example, the case of Johnny Johnson: https://youtu.be/ntpK9D3935o (warning: this crime is about as bad as it gets and is described in detail here). I won’t describe the crime here. The video is worth a watch if you’re curious but you have been warned.

    There is no pardoning that. Ever. Under no circumstances should they ever be allowed to walk among us ever again. Even under the strictest possible supervision.

    These crimes are so awful that we simply cannot forgive, and these people cannot be rehabilitated, and no second chance should be granted.

    Death penalty or not (to which I can see both sides of the argument and is probably still something to be debated but isn’t the point of this comment) I can’t envision any solution of pardoning these criminals is ever acceptable.