Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

the funny thing about "let families handle crimes" is that we used to do that: it was called "feuding" and it was extremely inefficient and hugely destructive as a justice system. results in just an enormous amount of pointless bloodshed sometimes spanning generations — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

the odd thing about the "worst of the worst" argument is that it's not actually the most depraved killers who receive the lion's share of capital sentences — in the case of serial/spree killers, for instance, there's often a question of sanity, and they often plead guilty — PolitiTweet.org