That's good. Apart from the fact there are too many mistakes,anything that frustrates Trump's ability to just kill people hits him where it hurts because the orange blob revels in hurting people.
Then could Biden please resign, making Harris the 47th President there by making all the 47 MAGA swag out there useless? Asking for an immature friend.
Unlike Trumpkin who was rushing through executions before Biden took over… Magats voted to drag everyone down to their level of misery and beat them with experience.
Gotta admit - not gonna get away with my opinion easily - I’m an advocate of the death sentence penalty for those that are DNA & evidence positive. I’m still really weird about this…. If it’s a definitive match, why use tax $$ to pay for lifetime care? (Victim’s sister & just a personal opinion.) ☹️
People on death row end up costing the state more money than those incarcerated for life, so there’s not a monetary argument for it. More importantly, executing someone doesn’t do anything more to protect the public than just imprisoning them for life. They can try to make up for their crime.
Well, at least he’s not charging for his pardons like Donald Trump did at the end of his first term. Trump also did a bunch of super secret pardons that I don’t think we know about to this day.
For most, I agree. There are things that deserve the death penalty though, child molesters, child traffickers, murders for reasons that make no sense. Rapists:the your body, my choice pieces of shit. The proundboy racists, and so many more Im sure I missed.
I have far too much evidence that our justice system is incapable of rendering justice fairly or incorruptably enough to place the option of the death penalty in its toolbox.
Further, the DP smacks of revenge rather than justice to me.
There are things that deserve it, but those people are rarely the ones who get it anyway. And having it leaves it open to abuse and to the wrong people getting it.
yeah with me the issue isn’t whether certain people deserve to die it’s that i don’t at all trust this legal system to decide that. like there’s an autistic person who was convicted on basis of non standard emotional response of killing his kid. sketchy.
if they were 100% sure he did it? yeah chuck him into a volcano. good riddance. but it really sounds like BS evidence and killing someone on those grounds is awful
You’ve lost your fucking mind! He MURDERED another human being! When you experience a family member’s murder, ONLY THEN do you get to have an opinion. Sorry, this is personal!
Alright, My brother was murdered. I still think Luigi deserves to go free.
Because my brother was murderer by United Healthcare, when they decided the radiation therapy he needed to treat his cancer wasn't covered by the insurance my family had paid into, on time and in full, for >20 years.
Have you ever sat by your loved one's side in the hospital, watching them die and knowing there is a treatment that could be preventing this but they aren't able to get it because some company decided their life wasn't "profitable"?
But he's quite content to have the end of american democracy as his legacy?
What he's showing is denial. He failed the country, but he's hoping that polishing the trim will make up for catastrophic dereliction of duty as the law enforcement branch of government.
It's not like Biden could ORDER the House or Senate to go through with those prosecutions of the Tangerine Turd; anymore than the judges who abdicated their legal responsibilities to carry out justice would listened to him.
Democracy died at the ballot box and it was voters that killed it.
Democracy died when Merrick Garbage chose to protect the traitor. His confirmation was the final nail in the coffin, and all we've seen since has been the death throes of a deceased republic.
Read it. Tks. Tough issue. Trump is reckless on this one. Biden is certainly justified in commuting but the greater problem is the law itself. I wish there was a way to clear all appeals, to rid ourselves of reasonable doubt, before we proceed with any execution. Barring that, we should end it.
He should do it. The death penalty is a flawed process. I'm not saying some monsters don't perhaps deserve it, but we can still keep them locked up if needed. But to many innocent people have been sentenced to death based on discriminatory or unjust policies.
imprisoned criminal also cannot commit more crimes
imprisoned criminal can be converted and find eternal peace repenting his sins
that's what my mother taught me
no, they will not be released
As Long as they have proven that their cases were that they were wrongfully convicted. I have to say this because I am a member of a family who had violence in our family in 1966 where a man shot and killed six people in my family & was on the road to Jersey to finish the job when he was caught.
He should because Trump is salivating st the chance to kill people. If you think I'm joking, consider that last time he killed hundreds just because he could. And a few black people as favors to his white supremacist buddies. I wish I were joking. I'm not.
I can only imagine what it must have felt like the moment Trump realized he could legally order a person to be put to death. It must have been like the first hit of some powerful drug. I can only imagine how much he might want to feel that again.
whatever happened to those preemptive pardons now that the house magats have decided to go after cheney? commuting sentences of death row inmates sounds good but i'd like to know about the others ...
You know what I’d like to see?
Biden pardoning every prosecutor from Jack Smith to Fani Willis and EVERYONE ELSE IN TRUMPS FIRING LINE WHO TRIED TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY.
Except Merrick Garland.
Cuz, fuck that guy.
There are no women currently on federal death row in the United States.
Lisa Montgomery was the only woman on federal death row until she was executed in January 2021. There have been no women sentenced to federal death row since then.
It's important to distinguish between federal death row and state death rows. There are women on death row in some states, but not at the federal level.
The president cannot pardon state level death row female inmates as he does not have the authority.
Will they remain in jail? If so, I'm all for that. Thinking of the victims of crime here. If they are wrongly convicted, they at least get to live and keep fighting for their own justice.
This will make Trump furious. He loves to kill people. Since most people on death row go through a length process of appeals before they are murdered by the state it very likely that he will not get to kill anyone in his four years in office.
To do less than commuting them would be an act of cruelty after he suspended executions while in office. It would be like, I’m outta here, sucks for you, sorry I got your hopes up
besides the fact that mistakes are made and innocent people are killed, there is also the fact that the Christofascists can't moan about it. (that ol' "thou shalt not kill" thingy)
The second we put to death ONE innocent person (and there have been MANY!), the whole system is flawed. We're on par with China, Iran, & Saudi Arabia with executions. We still kill minor offenders, ffs! The US legal system isn't about innocence, it's about who can afford the best legal defense.
The Innocence Project proves time and time again that wrongful convictions happen all the time. State sanctioned murder is flawed at best, and many die in prison or languish for decades before that even happens anyway.
Time for it to stop.
Agreed. If we will have a death penalty at all, it should be reserved only for the most egregious, well-documented cases where the defendant's guilt is not in doubt (ie. we have them on tape killing people). If there is even a sliver of doubt, there is too much risk.
Too many people in this country have been convicted on flimsy evidence and due to flawed prosecutions to allow it except in the most obvious, incontrovertible cases.
All #BlueSky & #BlueCrew friends, would you be kind enough to share this so that we might convince Joe to do the right thing before he leaves the building?
And if you know the story of the One Starfish...you'll know why this is important. ☮🌈💚
If he doesn't Komrade Trumpet will kill them while he's in office, it gives him the feeling of power, he did last time just before he left office. He's a fucking killer wantabe.
There are so many Democrats that believe in capital punishment. This will hurt for years to come just watch. We may not have another Democrat President for a while.
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I wish Obama had done this
That much is quite clear
It's long past the time
To free Leonard Peltier
Treason deserves a hanging.
The death penalty is an abomination that we should leave in the dustbin of history.
Further, the DP smacks of revenge rather than justice to me.
Because my brother was murderer by United Healthcare, when they decided the radiation therapy he needed to treat his cancer wasn't covered by the insurance my family had paid into, on time and in full, for >20 years.
Because I have.
Has he freed-up time from commuting the sentences of white-collar criminals, or is he still occupied?
I can truly understand why President Biden would want such thing as his legacy -
Beautiful Man. 🫠✨🫠✨
What he's showing is denial. He failed the country, but he's hoping that polishing the trim will make up for catastrophic dereliction of duty as the law enforcement branch of government.
Democracy died at the ballot box and it was voters that killed it.
imprisoned criminal can be converted and find eternal peace repenting his sins
that's what my mother taught me
no, they will not be released
no death penalty in civilized countries
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Image being paralysed then someone ⚡️you.
Biden pardoning every prosecutor from Jack Smith to Fani Willis and EVERYONE ELSE IN TRUMPS FIRING LINE WHO TRIED TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY.
Except Merrick Garland.
Cuz, fuck that guy.
Next: Free Leonard Peltier
Lisa Montgomery was the only woman on federal death row until she was executed in January 2021. There have been no women sentenced to federal death row since then.
The president cannot pardon state level death row female inmates as he does not have the authority.
That's something.
By the by Trump should be there for treason.
Time for it to stop.
And if you know the story of the One Starfish...you'll know why this is important. ☮🌈💚
#usa #nativeamerican
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leonard-peltier-parole-denied-biden_n_668419f4e4b038babc7d147f
Let the ketchup fly
I don’t exactly want these individuals working at the coffee shop next week.
Also, since many people don’t know this: death penalty cases are way more expensive than life sentences
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jun-20-la-me-adv-death-penalty-costs-20110620-story.html
https://www.amnestyusa.org/issues/death-penalty/death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-cost/
For a list of what makes it more expensive:
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/costs
I've been pushing for that and for him to take it farther but this is good
He absolutely should offer broad pardons to Gen Milley and many others.