hi clo,
i kinda thought i got it! you care about the means.
but maybe you missed mine.
i care about the ends.
he is due to spend the rest of his life in prison for his crime.
that is what i thought appropriate.
i never favour a conviction that leads towards judicially sanctioned killing. which is the glide path of your wish.
killing black teens is not much different from killing white grandmothers. i want folks who do these things carelessly and without regard to the law put in prison and i am also glad when a jury makes a decision which excludes capital punishment.
but i do agree that the black teenager was murdered by a man without compassion and i don't need a jury's acknowledgement to think it was so. but however he ends up in prison, he's going to be there. which is enough for me.
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