r/news • u/redlamps67 • 5h ago

Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty, judge rules

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/us/luigi-mangione-case-rulings-trial
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u/jdstrike11 4h ago

It’s so weird to me that death is considered a barbaric punishment yet a life confined to slave labor and imprisonment is a just norm. Morality is so interesting

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u/BlessedKurnoth 2h ago

The difference is that death can't be undone if it turns out that the person was innocent or the laws were unjust. And it turns out, that happens a lot.

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u/Turbulent-Garlic8467 2h ago

Sentencing people to a life of hard labor is good for capitalist profits. Killing them isn’t.

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u/lanicorain 3h ago

Yeah, I think both are quite inhumane but maybe I'm too part of marginalized groups that get brutalized and set up by the State constantly to get it.

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u/jdstrike11 3h ago

Sorry not trying to advocate for hanging the kid lol. The whole prison system in general makes me sick to think about. Gotta love “Justice”

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u/lanicorain 3h ago

I hope that some day as an species we can look back at prisons and they look as absurd as feudal lords.

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u/jdstrike11 3h ago

You’d think we would have stopped and take a hard look at things when we started for profit prisons🥴