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Comment by fennecfoxen | Hacker News Reader

You’d can’t just have a list of disqualifying crimes. You’d need to balance things out a proper social credit score.

With an indirect death penalty attached, yes. Can’t think of how this could go wrong at alllllllllllll

The guy should have got the death penalty for attempted and arguably successful murder (the victim later died of a stroke directly attributable to the wounds he received from the stabbing). 10 years for stabbing a guy multiple times to the point of putting him in a wheel chair is a slap on the wrist.

Funny how a lot of problems work themselves out when swift justice is delivered. This whole thread doesn’t exist in that alternative, more just world.

In the article I see a few pictures of the guy with his large, seemingly happy family. Getting rid of the opportunity for that to happen would be like creating another tragedy from the ashes of the first. I don’t know where you’re from, but in America a lot of folks share your view. But our use of the death penalty hasn’t eradicated crime. So then one has to wonder if the possible benefits are worth the price.

> with his large, seemingly happy family

If we take that into account, then do loners without friends/children/family not deserve the same consideration?

They definitely do in my view. But if you were facing the death penalty as a part of a jury trial they might feel differently, character witness statements matter to some degree.

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