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24 Apr 2025, 6:12 pm

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24 Apr 2025, 8:32 pm

America has no problem executing profoundly intellectually impaired individuals. It's not shocking that they'd execute autists as well.


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Yesterday, 11:42 am

No civilized country impose death penalty on their citizens in piece time for "ordinary" crimes.


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Yesterday, 12:43 pm

Murder is murder. Whipping out the autism card or mental illness card does not justify people's immoral actions.



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Yesterday, 10:49 pm

Kohberger didn't kill four people because he has autism; he killed four people IN SPITE OF his autism. In other words, his autism had nothing to do with murdering four people, not any more than some other killer's neurotypical wiring made HIM commit murder. Kohberger's autism shouldn't even be an issue. If anything, autistic people have a higher sense of justice and following rules than do NTs. I gather that he had things happen to him when growing up that totally f'cked up his head; never mind he's autistic.

With all that said, I'm AGAINST the death penalty because this shortens the time that someone will spend living inside a cage and being forced to shower with other men, eat prison food, and suffer from all that prison has to offer.

Let this young man spend the next 60 years living in a cage and thinking about what he did, not 15.