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Reviews for "Capital Punishment: The Musical [NATA]"

Arguing against the statistical nature of racism versus legal punishments is just sad denial. We've literally recently had multiple black men killed by white men who got off. Meanwhile, we had the white man that attempted but failed thrown in jail for life. Our justice system makes a clear statement, that it's ok to kill black people, but if you attempt without succeeding, you'll pay the price... It definitely reinforces a double tap rule for police officers. Did you just shoot a black man? Then be sure and walk over and put an extra bullet in his head, or else.

Then we have the rioters. Obama blatantly comes out saying what these rioters are doing is bad. Then the conservative right comes out and says Obama supports them. So then the rioters can come out and say we have the support of the president to keep doing this. The people who oppose the president just said so.

I read once that the ultimate form of suicide is to go outside, lay face face on a concrete sidewalk, and then proceed to bash your head into the sidewalk until dead. There are so many people who consider opinions to be facts and facts to be opinions; it makes that suicide seem so appealing.

As someone who live in WA State, we only technically still hang people. First of all, people have had the choice of lethal injection or hanging. We've only had 5 executions since 1994, only two of whom were hung. Every case of capital punishment since 1941 has been for murder. Only one person formally slain by the Washington State Department of Corrections has been hanged for anything other than murder.

It doesn't cost 20 times more to keep people on death row, but it does cost more in general for capital cases. A great deal of the extra cost is actually in the court case (defense/prosecution costs) - and that's without accounting for the costs of other court officials. The cost increase is due to there being more at stake, and therefore requiring on average much longer cases than non-capital ones.
"Only 3/4 people we gore only die because the victim was white" - um, what? The data I find ("Victim Gender and the Death Penalty") does have some data that does seem to back your point if more thought isn't put behind it. That data being that 70% of the criminals that got the Death penalty had white victims. However, you fail to understand the context of that number. Is that because people 'care more' if the victim was white, or just because more of the crimes in the study were against white people? In that same study, 90 (63.2%) of the murder cases they looked at were against white people, while 53 (36.8%) cases had non-white victims. 70% of the executions were for murderers who killed white people, but 63% of the murders were against white people.

If you aren't getting this, what I'm saying is that most of the people killed by murderers in that study were white, therefore most of the executions found by the study were for killers of white people. That's not racial bias, that's actually equality at work. The study can be found here: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2425&context=facpub
The information I cited is on page 23.

Gonna skip the bits on Singapore and North Korea because I kinda don't care. I think those laws are silly, but I don't have much else to say about that.

China has a history of selling the bodies of the executed, which I assume is what you're talking about there. I do know that they have sold the bodies of political prisoners to things like Body Worlds and I'm sure a bunch of other odd places. Not much to comment about Rome or Ancient Egypt. Romans had a whole bunch of ways to kill people, you could really write a whole book about it and I have little interest in doing that.

1/25 people are innocent? I don't know where you found that fact, and I doubt there's any truth to it.

And since this is a review on Newgrounds and not just my Youtube comment that I copy/pasted - the animation is passable. I'm not too fond of it personally, but it's alright. The singing is terrible, and some of that is because there's no music behind it. I think that really would have helped. Also, the singing is pretty awful. Particularly, on any extended bits like the 'Yeaaaah' at the ~45 second mark make me cringe. I don't know if that's intentional, but my god is it jarring. Overall, it's not the worst thing on Newgrounds, but it's pretty far from the best. I think the only reason it's rated so highly is that Newgrounds is populated by mostly young people who tend to lean pretty hard to the left, politically speaking, and this appeals to that political alignment.

This was really funny. I fully appreciate you educating us. I have heard some of this stuff before. The one at the end was the one I was most familiar with. The animation was really good too. It was great how you created a narrative out of this. Education should have a story!

I like this eyeball guy. I especially love how there are so many different designs in this. I had no idea what most of these things were. It was still very colorful. This was pretty unique, even for the open round series.

The animation is great. The style is clearly meant for humor. The lyrics was well written. My only complaint would be that some parts are out of tune. I don't know if this is intentional or not but it made me cringe so I'ma count it... Sorry.

I'm not gonna criticize the accuracy of your facts cause it's a lot of work, I'm a lazy bastard, and there are always certain degrees of certainty. Plus, for the last fact, whatever percentage of people die due to capital punishment are innocent, is significant as long as it isn't zero.

Side note: Some people rated your work poorly on the their reviews because they didn't agree with your message (don't get me wrong I said 'some'). I think that you have the right to complain about that. Reviews are reviews, reviews are meant to criticize the quality of work. If people don't like the message then they can blam it instead.

Well, you know, technically 1/25 people getting the death penalty is correct, as long as you go back long enough. if you go back to 300 ish years you have women being burned at the stake(receiving the death penalty) for being a witch(actually innocent).
And keep in mind he said BASED off true facts. He probably said-
and 3 out of 4
of the people we gore
only die because the victim was white
because some people are racist and more inclined to punish the death (sadly) of a Aaucasian as opposed to a Black man or an Asian.

Keep up the good work!
(not 5 stars cause its a bit dark)