You either believe the death penalty is barbaric and inhumane, or you don't. You cannot believe it for 37 people and not believe it for 3 others because people know their names and remember what they did.
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I think a lot of people believe that commuting a death sentence means these men will be out of prison soon. It does not. They will never leave prison. So if that's your concern, it is not an issue. The only issue is whether or not you believe the state should get to murder people.
(I am not saying this glibly, or to score internet points) It feels consistent with Biden's position on Israel and Gaza that he would think some people do deserve the death penalty and that the state should have that power.
Maybe! He is a devout Catholic, though, so my suspicion is that he is anti-death penalty overall, but given that the three he left out were the most currently famous mass killers on death row, I think he did it to avoid backlash.
I don't believe clemency can be undone, but if it can, it would be insane to believe that Trump, a murderous lunatic who revels in the pain of human beings, wouldn't try to undo every one of these 37.
Maybe people never think about how those deaths take place. There’s terrible suffering—it’s not like when they put your pet to sleep humanely. And there are multiple health care providers involved—doctors, nurses, pharmacists. It’s a brutal, barbaric thing wrapped in the trappings of healthcare.
Yes, you've laid out the case for the death penalty. If you believe there are crimes sufficiently awful to merit it, then you're for it, and it's hard to get much worse than what Roof did. But Biden has repeatedly said he thinks the death penalty should be abolished. He campaigned on it.
You’re presupposing that the person making this decision is a regular human being and not a warped political creature whose moral compass is twisted beyond recognition from a lifetime of suppressing human instincts for political gain
Judd, this doesn't square at all with what I'm hearing from other people on this. What I'm hearing is that I am incorrectly presupposing that the person making this decision is President of the United States, and not Sweet Grampa Joe from Delaware who just wants everyone to have a nice Christmas.
If you truly believe that deciding that 3 people did such heinous thing they don't deserve clemency is worse than or even close to letting 37 other people be executed, you seriously need to re-evaluate your priorities and morals
THANK YOU! Exactly my sentiment. I despise the cherry picking of cases he did here. Especially when we know 47 will reinstate executions. It’s just permission for the next admin to carry out those sentences.
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