If the Death Penalty doesn’t have a profit motive, and is so obviously barbaric, why do political groups and people in America still rally behind it? Surely there’s more to it than most Americans just being blood thirsty monsters, right?
If the Death Penalty doesn’t have a profit motive, and is so obviously barbaric, why do political groups and people in America still rally behind it? Surely there’s more to it than most Americans just being blood thirsty monsters, right?
Like with every other harmful and barbaric practice in the US that hurts the working class, the cruelty is the point. It always has been the point, throughout North America’s entire history of settler colonialism. The crimes against humanity perpetrated by the US are so grave, so atrocious, so absurdly evil that they can never be atoned for.
Take a look at the US’ prisons. They deliberately engineer them to be sites of torture. They deliberately restrict nutritional value and variety, refuse to have air conditioning installed, and facilitate the conditions for violence and abuse to occur both from guards and fellow inmates. The heat in the summer is getting worse and causing people to drop like flies in US prisons, just like they deliberately let COVID run rampant and eat everyone alive. There’s also the arbitrary use of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation that frequently goes anywhere from a few years to several decades. These places are built to thoroughly destroy people in the worst possible ways imaginable. I’ve even read something once about lethal injections not being efficient in some cases, causing the victim extreme pain sometimes for days before they finally die. It’s not about rehabilitation, it’s torture porn for these fuckers.
The US has never been the hero of really any story. It’s always going to be the epicenter of the world’s evil, until it is irreversibly destroyed in its current form and rebuilt to benefit the working class and punish evil instead of endlessly rewarding it.