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Melon

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7. I won't defend the death penalty in this situation

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sun Mar 8, 2026, 01:35 AM

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But I absolutely believe that if you are participating in a crime, you are responsible with your codefendants in enabling the crime…all the crimes..you are charged with and transpire. If someone dies while you are committing the crime, you yourself are also responsible for that death. If you commit a crime resulting in a police chase, and an officer died in the pursuit, his blood is on your hands.

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Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone [View all] Swede Saturday OP

Horrifying and Barbaric. CaliforniaPeggy Saturday #1

It's an old English legal principle that goes back centuries. Disaffected Saturday #2

That is not what 'In for a penny, in for a pound' means. We (I grew up in London) use it to mean that once you start Celerity Yesterday #5

Thanks. It is also apparently used informally in a legal setting. Disaffected Yesterday #8

Fair enough. I have not seen it used in the UK like you showed it is used at times in the US. Celerity Yesterday #9

This is horrible. And the actual killer got life because of ineffective defense question everything Yesterday #3

This is wrong MustLoveBeagles Yesterday #4

The death penalty is a barbarous relic, and it is utterly shameful that the US still uses it at multiple levels of Celerity Yesterday #6

I won't defend the death penalty in this situation Melon Yesterday #7