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0 pointssuperchroma3y ago0 comments

Yes I know they are free to do that but that doesn't mean that it's fair.

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Well, I'd agree; the fact that that's allowed is an obvious miscarriage of justice.

But it's also how the system is explicitly supposed to work; it doesn't make for a strong "facts-based" argument for clemency.

vkou3y ago

Is it?

There's two angles to justice. The legal, and the moral.

What was done to him was legal, and nobody's denying that.

Given the scope of the crimes he was convicted for, I don't think it was immortal to throw the entire book at him, to the maximum possible legal extent.

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