The point of the carceral system in the US is to first and foremost keep black people oppressed. It also does it for other groups, and these days it's to a pretty large degree a money making scheme for a bunch of for profit businesses, from from prisons through bail bonding all the way to companies that use prison labor. But racism and especially anti-black racism was always a huge part of what make it what it is, and also how it is sold to the American public, without fail.
Conservative are going to use this case to push for harsher prison sentences and to to fight any attempt at cash bail reform. And you can bet your ass they wouldn't have done it if the driver was white and right wing. I mean they are passing laws legalizing driving over left wing protests. They don't actually care about keeping people safe.
This.
I could buy that if it was some kind of public spectacle, but is just knowing a 'bad person' has been executed enough to satiate any bloodlust? Especially for people you don't even know. I could understand a relative or friend of a victim feeling vengeful but it can't be healthy to feel that way about every violent criminal.
Yes. It is to the general public.