{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I understand now that you\u2019ve rediscovered the 13th amendment everything looks like a nail, but murder isn\u2019t a status crime like...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/161615094523/", "html": "<p>I understand now that you\u2019ve rediscovered the 13th amendment everything looks like a nail, but murder isn\u2019t a status crime like vagrancy, some pretext to reincarnate slavery as convict leasing. We were always going to punish murder (traditionally, by hanging).</p>\n\n<p>And against the complaint that even fixed-term sentences don\u2019t come with an exit plan these days, \u201cease out your last few years doing off-campus catering around the most powerful people in the state\u201d doesn\u2019t strike me as rank barbarity tbh</p>"}