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Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @politico: Biden privately told a group of mayors and governors last week that his proposed minimum wage hike was unlikely to happen. I… — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
@stillgray @nytopinion I just mean in the USA — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @nytopinion: "Mr. Biden’s campaign promised to urge Congress to abolish the federal death penalty," @ebruenig writes. "Now we must deman… — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @axios: Scientists believe Mars was once a relatively warm and habitable world. Three new missions from China, UAE and the U.S. will he… — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
@MaxKennerly posting hall of fame — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @MaxKennerly: @ebruenig A bit of legal trivia here, too: first time a blog overruled SCOTUS. 2006 NDAA added the death penalty for chil… — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
@Absurditron @BasedOnFoma a good number of people who sexually abuse children don't even see what they're doing as violent and depraved. they're psychologically fucked up — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
yeah, as recently as 2002 in Louisiana if memory serves. however, SCOTUS knocked it down on appeal. they have ruled explicitly that the death penalty is disproportionate to any crime that does not result in the death of a victim or victims, including the rape of a child. — PolitiTweet.org
Absurditron @Absurditron
@ebruenig Have there been any instances of child molesters sentenced to death?
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
if you had knowledge of the extreme depravity of your own crimes and had reason to believe the authorities had such evidence in hand, it would make sense for you to plead guilty, too. convicts can oftentimes get certain concessions (such as death off the table) that way. — 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
QuixCap @QuixxxCap
@ebruenig "just seems right on a gut level" is also the most common justification for most moral principles. (In mo… https://t.co/C2885zYDDb
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
@AnnOfGrnStables siri please list the reasons i should give a shit about kant and also the position of the catholic church on capital punishment. thanks — PolitiTweet.org
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
⛓Huck Finn⛓ @ohiospud
@ebruenig @POTUS As a compromise let the victims families make the final decision
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
@sammyboy980 it's more expensive to kill them — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
yeah, i have. the thing i noticed is that opponents of the death penalty have a huge range of reasons -- religious, constitutional, legal, egalitarian, pacifist, financial, libertarian, etc., but people who support it always end up with "just seems right on a gut level" — PolitiTweet.org
War Replaced With Free Everything @johnpike15
@ebruenig Liz - have you spoken to advocates of the death penalty as to why they don't want to give it up? citizen… https://t.co/ZMlOGxPaBj
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
that's tea — PolitiTweet.org
Shawn McCreesh @ShawnMcCreesh
The beans have been spilled. https://t.co/5Fy6PfuyBa https://t.co/A7SYTA8Onv
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @CMNEndtheDP: When @ebruenig witnessed the federal execution of #AlfredBourgeois, she says she was "meant to feel the grisly affair was… — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @LizardRumsfeld: @ebruenig hell yeah check out this cut, all the cool dads are getting it https://t.co/y987S4t6Gb — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
dang my parents wouldn't even let me go to a friend's house on a school night, much less jaunt off to a foreign country on a lark...ted must be a hella cool dad — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
@CaveatSpecter i'm not sure the flat ironed thing that followed in the early aughts was much better — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
ha, yes, i thought it was deployed at a moment in the film (where rico is getting his ass beat by his girl's new man) that resulted in some comedic effect despite how insanely good the song is. i think i then suggested the rad j mascis cover for the flogging scene — PolitiTweet.org
(Dame) Ace Pinball @acepinball
@ebruenig Off topic! Liz I remember you had a take on "Fade Into You" being used in Starship Troopers... maybe some… https://t.co/Wfr98wvDy5
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
her look bangs too — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @BernardHarcourt: Abolish the federal death penalty! Every vector points in that direction: public opinion; jury sentencing trends; raci… — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
don't care if i'm persecuted for this teaching: this still bangs hard https://t.co/goLgC2dACU — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @nytopinion: "As long as the death penalty remains an option for future presidents, future killing sprees could — and almost certainly w… — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @ColumbiaCCCT: "We value less the life of an African-American person than we do the value of a white person, because we impose the death… — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
@WokeCapital sir — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @DennisPoust: A devastating critique of the federal death penalty by @ebruenig in @nytimes @nytopinion https://t.co/xQn4ADEjTs — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
@AquillaLeon @AntiFaHR3 i mean people ask me if i have lost family members to homicide and the answer is yes. doesn't seem any more cudgel-like then people who advocate for death pen by mentioning their losses — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
My sister-in-law was murdered in 2016. She, my husband, and I went to high school together. Her name was Heather. It is now my second baby's middle name. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
But only abolition will ensure that what just happened — thirteen Americans executed in a handful of months, during a devastating pandemic, no less — does not happen again. Now is the time. @POTUS, help us abolish the federal death penalty now. — PolitiTweet.org
