Yesterday, Brian Dorsey was executed for a crime he committed in 2006. By all accounts, during his time in prison, he became remorseful for his actions and was a “model prisoner,” to the point that multiple corrections officers backed his petition for clemency.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/us/brian-dorsey-missouri-execution-tuesday/index.html

In general, the media is painting him as the victim of a justice system that fails to recognize rehabilitation. I find this idea disgusting. Brian Dorsey, in a drug-induced stupor, murdered the people who gave him shelter. He brutally ended the life of a woman and her husband, and (allegedly) sexually assaulted her corpse. There is an argument that he had ineffective legal representation, but that doesn’t negate the fact that he is guilty.

While I do believe that he could have been released or had his sentence converted to life in prison, and he could have potentially been a model citizen, this would have been a perversion of justice. Actions that someone takes after committing a barbaric act do not undo the damage that was done. Those two individuals are still dead, and he needed to face the ramifications for his actions.

Rehabilitation should not be an option for someone who committed crimes as depraved as he did. Quite frankly, a lethal injection was far less than what he deserved, given the horror he inflicted on others. If the punishment should fit the crime, then he was given far more leniency than was warranted.

  • Neuromancer
    12•1 month ago

    Which no one denies. Th ramifications should have been life in prison without a chance for parole

    Agreed. The death penalty should be revoked in my opinion. It’s an archaic penalty.

    • @IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
      27•1 month ago

      While it apparently didn’t happen in this case, there are a number of examples of people who have gone to death row, been executed, then proven to have been innocent after all. That’s a huge reason for me as to why the death penalty should be done away with.

      • Neuromancer
        17•1 month ago

        That’s is one of my big issues. Another issue is it’s just vengeance. The system should be about justice.

        I don’t think executing people makes society safer. I do not think it deters crime.

        • livus
          8•1 month ago

          It obviously doesn’t deter crime.

          The US is an outlier on the death penalty. Most western countries don’t have it, but we don’t have higher homicide rates.

          • Neuromancer
            -7•1 month ago

            That’s always been an excuse in America.

            I’ve never one though, I’d murder this person but shucks, they’d execute me. I just don’t think about killing my fellow man in any serious way.

        • pingveno
          4•1 month ago

          Yeah, this is why I don’t agree with capital punishment. Sure, many victim’s families will want the perp to die. That doesn’t mean we as a society have to be a place where we grant the wishes of blood lust. It doesn’t make the world a better place, just a bloodier place.