Trump Rages at Biden for Wrecking His Plans for Executions: ‘Makes No Sense’
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Human rights experts praised Biden’s decision to commute death-row sentences—which baffled death penalty hawk Trump.

Summary

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life without parole, sparing all but three convicted of high-profile mass killings.

Biden framed the decision as a moral stance against federal executions, citing his legal background and belief in the dignity of human life.

Donald Trump criticized the move as senseless, vowing to reinstate the death penalty.

Reactions were mixed: some victims’ families condemned Biden, while others supported his decision. Human rights groups praised it as a significant step against capital punishment.

  • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    183·
    7 months ago

    I understand that and, if you ask me, those 3 guys are pos. My problem is that he said he did it to take a moral stance against death penalty. You can’t do that and go “except for these 3 cases”.

      • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        112·
        7 months ago

        But not everybody is making a statement about morality. He’s purportedly saying “capital punishment is bad and we should get rid of it”. If you make exceptions, all you’re saying is that you’re in favor of keeping it around for really bad people, which is exactly where they are now.

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        92·
        7 months ago

        I’m not sure that’s true. Some people legitimately stop at life in prison and always oppose the death penalty.

        • OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
          51·
          7 months ago

          I’m one of those. Capital punishment is obsolete in my opinion, since we no longer need to execute people to ensure that they don’t present danger to the civilized population in the future.

          • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            7 months ago

            Again, I don’t know if that’s true. People seem to have very strange absolute moral ideas sometimes.

              • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
                11·
                7 months ago

                You’re completely missing the point and focusing on an individual. They’re stating the moral purpose of a SOCIETY. As in the society shouldn’t kill and it certainly shouldn’t be ONE individuals decision for that murder to take place. YOU might have a redline/breaking point, but society wouldn’t. It’s why ONE person isn’t the deciding factor on death, it’s a societies moral choice to do that and uphold that.

                You guys can pretend that EVERYONE has a breaking point, that doesn’t mean you can’t have a society that doesn’t have the death penalty. I feel like these responses are just people trying to incite continued violence or justifying their own extremely vitriol need to kill those they deem less.