At least a full 2/3 of the people that were supposed to be there when it was shut down a couple months ago (before it reopened) can’t be accounted for.

Yeah.

Pretty much why I’m anti-death-penalty in all cases. The state shouldn’t be allowed to deal death as a punishment, because there’s too much at stake. You can’t un-kill someone if you get things wrong, and prosecutors have a vested interest in, at the very least, not being wrong. Being right doesn’t matter, but being wrong can cost you your position or your credibility within the legal field. Killing the defendant wraps things up nicely because a corpse can’t defend itself, and it can’t say “I wasn’t there” or “I had nothing to do with this”, it can’t plead its own innocence - so you can put whatever words you like into their mouths and it plays perfectly with a jury.

Basically they’re terrified that this might open doors. That’s almost always what it is. They’re scared that someone might start asking questions about OTHER cases and saying “hey, what if those were wrongfully decided as well?”. A lot of states love executing people who are problematic - poor people, people of color, mentally disabled people - because it’s easier for police to pin literally whatever on them in order to clear up a backlog or to make themselves look competent.

The Earth is too cold for them because these demons are used to living in Hell.

An infantry officer who was only part of the National Guard, at that.

They’d simply go to war with Germany if they tried to kick out the soldiers, I fear. The US military is the proverbial 800-lb gorilla, and like the joke goes, it will sit wherever it damn well pleases under Trump.

What are you gonna do, tell the most powerful land and air and sea military on Earth “hey, you need to not be here”? What are you gonna do if they say “no”? Sure, you can declare war on them (because that WOULD constitute an invasion). Then what?