Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Germany calls for global death penalty ban | DW News" video.

@GolDRoger-fx2fp When you want to say something coherent and logical that's worth discussing let the rest of us know. Otherwise take that religious nonsense and go away.
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This is exactly the same answer I just put in another comment: On the basic principal I agree. For example in the case of Timothy McVeigh there was no doubt he did what he did. In the case of John Wayne Gacy there was no doubt. In both those case I absolutely agree that justice was done. They both showed what Americans call "depraved indifference," but in many other cases there is doubt or there is at least the appearance of improper procedure. For example: AFTER Donald Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered the execution of 3 convicted people. Irrespective of what they did or didn't do for over 130 years NO President had allowed a federal execution to take place in the period between the election and the inauguration of the next President. The view was that despite the sitting president having duties to fulfill no longer had the mandate for those sorts of decisions and they were to be left for the incoming president. At the same time Donald Trump pardoned the Blackwater 4 who were responsible for killing 17 innocent people in the Nisour Square Massacre. Those 4 were, at the time of their crime, employees of Eric Prince the brother of Betsy DeVos Donald Trumps Secretary of Education. So were those decisions by Donald Trump for justice or politics? FYI - I'm Australian and the last person executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan who was hanged for killing a guard during an attempted prison break. It was in my home state of Victoria. There were serious ballistics issues that suggested the guard was accidentally shot by another guard in a tower. The lone eyewitness to the actual shot simply lied. Decades later records were released of the cabinet discussions. These included people telling the Premier (our equivalent of a state Governor) of these serious flaws in the case. He told colleagues he didn't care as there was an election coming and looking tough of crime was always a winner. Sir Henry Bolte won that election in a landslide and one of the main bridges in Melbourne is named after him. Its now fairy well accepted that Ronald Ryan was hung for political not judicial reasons.
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On the basic principal I agree. For example in the case of Timothy McVeigh there was no doubt he did what he did. In the case of John Wayne Gacy there was no doubt. In both those case I absolutely agree that justice was done. They both showed what Americans call "depraved indifference," but in many other cases there is doubt or there is at least the appearance of improper procedure. For example: AFTER Donald Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered the execution of 3 convicted people. Irrespective of what they did or didn't do for over 130 years NO President had allowed a federal execution to take place in the period between the election and the inauguration of the next President. The view was that despite the sitting president having duties to fulfill no longer had the mandate for those sorts of decisions and they were to be left for the incoming president. At the same time Donald Trump pardoned the Blackwater 4 who were responsible for killing 17 innocent people in the Nisour Square Massacre. Those 4 were, at the time of their crime, employees of Eric Prince the brother of Betsy DeVos Donald Trumps Secretary of Education. So were those decisions by Donald Trump for justice or politics? FYI - I'm Australian and the last person executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan who was hanged for killing a guard during an attempted prison break. It was in my home state of Victoria. There were serious ballistics issues that suggested the guard was accidentally shot by another guard in a tower. The lone eyewitness to the actual shot simply lied. Decades later records were released of the cabinet discussions. These included people telling the Premier (our equivalent of a state Governor) of these serious flaws in the case. He told colleagues he didn't care as there was an election coming and looking tough of crime was always a winner. Sir Henry Bolte won that election in a landslide and one of the main bridges in Melbourne is named after him. Its now fairy well accepted that Ronald Ryan was hung for political not judicial reasons.
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