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    I wonder if Delaware will ever reinstate their death penalty or not?

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    It will never be reinstated in the state unless a major political shift happens.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Delaware lawmakers consider reinstating death penalty

    State lawmakers are circulating bipartisan legislation to restore capital punishment in Delaware.

    The legislation, expected to be introduced soon, specifies that the death penalty could not be imposed unless a jury, unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt, finds at least one aggravating circumstance that makes a crime eligible for capital punishment.

    Delaware’s Supreme Court declared the state’s death penalty law unconstitutional in 2016 because it allowed judges too much discretion and did not require that a jury find unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant deserves execution.

    That ruling came after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida’s similar death sentencing law.

    Democratic Gov. John Carney said Tuesday that he might sign a bill allowing capital punishment only if it was restricted to killers of law enforcement officials.

    (Source: The Associated Press)
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    Democratic Gov. John Carney said Tuesday that he might sign a bill allowing capital punishment only if it was restricted to killers of law enforcement officials.
    Isn't a reporter ever gonna ask these goofy politicians to explain why they feel a police officer's life is worth more than a civillian's when they say crap like this?

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    Why abolish capital punishment in 2016 if prosecutors could have sought the death penalty only for cop killers?

    There are loads of cases across the US where police officers are killed in the line of duty. President Trump said that a person convicted of a killing a police officer to be "quickly" executed.

    Here's the link: https://www.news.com.au/world/north-...7847a736a07cd9
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    New York tried it and it the death penalty got abolished anyway. Trump saying something doesn't really mean anything unless there is actual legislative action.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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