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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.

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    I know of onlt one western country with death penalty: Belarus. And I’m pretty sure as soon as potato dictator dies, it will be abolished.

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    I don’t think the government should have the power to kill people as a punishment, with that said I’m also not upset that the sentences of these three weren’t commuted.

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    Biden: Grants clemency indiscriminately for 1,500 people Public: Why did you let the Cash for Kids woman free Biden: Commutes death sentences selectively Public: Who made you judge, jury and executioner?

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      Biden: Grants clemency indiscriminately for 1,500 people indiscriminately Media: Why did you let the Cash for Kids woman free Biden: Commutes death sentences selectively Media: Who made you judge, jury and executioner?

      FIFY… Real people honestly wouldn’t care about any of this if the media wasn’t trying to inspire outrage.

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        I think it’s the opposite. The public opinion has turned on him and so everything he does is critiqued. It’s nudge on by the media but is also the cycle of celebrities du jour

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    View these through the lens of each politician acting in their personal self-interest (which both of them have thoroughly demonstrated to be their only priority). What do they care one way or the other? This is political theater where they’re playing with the lives of the people in question.

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      Yes, I also agree that the president that commuted many death sentences is exactly the same as the president wanting to execute all of the prisoners

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        No, you’re right, fuck me for saying that thing that I didn’t even say. Your made-the-fuck-up interpretation of my comment disproves anything I have to say. This is a really healthy discourse we’re having and it’s not a glaring red flag that you’re so completely full of shit that you can’t even have a conversation with the person in front of you, you have to invent a fictional version of them to argue with.

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    While I’m overall glad about this, leaving 3 unpardoned inmates really corrupts the “moral stance against federal executions” justification and makes it seem like he is in favor of capital punishment but only for people he thinks deserve it. It also makes it seem like he believes it’s his decision to decide who gets to live and that rubs me the wrong way.

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      Even the most die-hard anti-death-penalty believer has their limits. It may take Hitler-level atrocities to get there, or maybe even worse. But everyone has their own line in the sand where even they will say “If there was ever a case in favor of the death penalty, this is that case.” That line is in a completely different place for everybody.

      It also makes it seem like he believes it’s his decision to decide who gets to live and that rubs me the wrong way.

      Since the President has final pardon power, he actually does get to decide who gets to live. It’s a power granted to him by the Constitution.

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        Yep I’m anti-death penalty, the 3 that didn’t get pardoned should probably just live the rest of their lives in prison. But I’m not going to shed any tears for them.

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          He didn’t pardon the others, he commuted their sentences to life in prison. Of note, the 3 civilians left are terrorists who committed mass murder and were caught red handed. There are also 4 people on military death row who remain. One is also a mass murdering terrorist; one committed literal treason, attacking his own unit in the middle of the night overseas; one is a serial killer/rapist; and one took three trials over 4 decades to convict of a group murder.

          They should probably commute his sentence too…

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            Yeah sorry that’s what I meant, long day at work. no sympathy for the people on death row, either way they should not be allowed back into normal society.

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        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”.

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          Right, but again…everybody has that point where they say “…except that case”. You and Biden just disagree on where that line is. Even the Pope is eventually going to look at someone who committed some heinous crimes and say “Dude, even the Bible says that shit ain’t cool…”

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            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.

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              People make exceptions for things they believe in all the time. Religion is a prime example; show me any established religion, and I’ll show you a few dozen beliefs associated with that religion that 99.9% of worshippers conveniently ignore. That doesn’t mean they don’t believe. That just means they have limits.

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                show me any established religion, and I’ll show you a few dozen beliefs associated with that religion that 99.9% of worshippers conveniently ignore

                Zoroastrianism.

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                  Zoroastrianism.

                  I’d be willing to bet that if you could even find someone practicing the religion, they’re not praying several times a day in a fire temple.

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

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              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.

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              I’m confident. Granted, for some people that red line may require atrocities at or above Hitler levels. It may require atrocities that are comically unrealistic. But it’s there. Put up someone who killed a proverbial busload of school children. If that isn’t enough, two. “Yeah, I killed them all, and I raped them first, and I’ll do the same again if I ever escape.”. Someone’s gonna say “Yeah, OK, stick the needle in his arm”, just because they don’t want to take the .000001% chance that he actually does escape.

              An extreme example, yes, but I’m sure you get the idea. Everybody’s got a breaking point.

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

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                  That doesn’t necessarily mean their beliefs are absolute. It just means that the red line needed to shake those believes has yet to be found.

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        I have no such limits. Death, as a penalty, is always unjust because humans do not have free will. Every action, every thought, has some biological, or neurochemical, or material basis for it’s happening. Inflicting any form of punishment or suffering on the qualia, the conscious experience of someone, for the illusion of choice we believe to have, is actually just inflicting suffering on innocent beings, because we have no choice.

        Now, that’s not too say I’m anti-violence. But I firmly believe that every piece of violence should be evaluated as if it was being done against an innocent person. Things like “guilt” or “they deserve it” should not be taken into the calculation when doing violence at all, only the benefits it has to the rest of society. If you are in the position to levy death as a punishment, I would rather just see them locked up for life.

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          Death, as a penalty, is always unjust because humans do not have free will.

          By this logic, all laws are unjust and humans aren’t responsible for their actions.

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        Nope. The most die hard, anti death penalty believer has no limits and literally says “we do not have the right to take anyone’s life, even if they are Hitler. In fact it would be better for society if we got to try to rehabilitate Hitler”.
        And I agree with them.

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        Even the most die-hard anti-death-penalty believer has their limits.

        I’d love a source for this. Personally, I don’t think we should be in the business of killing defenseless people in any context.

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            Then I’d be a witness and therefore not qualified to pass judgement in their case. Conflict of interest.

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              Man fuck you, you are guilty as well. That’s an instant removal from society. You might want to get therapy you are missing a soul.

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                You’re getting awfully worked up about the hypothetical baby you’re using to justify murder.

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          Why do you need a source for a fundamental part of human nature? subjectivity

          Google/Bing/DDG/Kagi the word…

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            Because people like to make claims about human nature that simply aren’t generally true. Rather than recognizing the way complex circumstances can shape human feelings and behaviors, I frequently see people break it down into simple platitudes like “humans are lazy, greedy, etc”, rather than recognizing complex realities like the way power erodes empathy.

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              Isn’t that my precise point but more words?

              Humans are complex. Different people will have different values and we’ll have different lines. This is fundamental to the individualistic nature of people.

              Asking for a source on something ingrained in our everyday lives is almost a bad faith statement. That’s like asking for a source on every piece of casual conversation just to shut it down.

              Do you really need a source that tells you that different people have different values and weigh the problems around them differently?

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              How does it? Subjectivity is defined by the same things that cause a variance in values and differences in weights placed on problems of others.

              Which is exactly what I’m talking about. Humans are complex we all have differing values.

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      The only thing that I can come to the conclusion is that two of the three are neo-nazis.

      He could be sending a message, and that’s what Trump is actually pissed about.

      The Boston bomber I can’t justify with that same line of thinking though.

      Executions are barbaric, plus life in prison is far more cruel anyway.

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        He could be sending a message, and that’s what Trump is actually pissed about.

        That actually makes sense.

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      A world leader like the president is deciding on deaths every single day. You are right to think it’s unsavory, but it certainly isn’t unique to this pardoning.

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        That may be true but singling out 3 people who are currently harmless and saying “you get to die” feels somehow different.

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      Devil’s advocate: do the last 3 deserve it? Are they unsafe to other inmates and also not possible candidates for rehabilitation and release to society?

      If yes… Welp.

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    One of the three he didn’t pardon was Dylann Roof. I thought they fried his ass already, had no idea he was still alive.

    I did wonder why the three that weren’t spared were left to die… and I still kinda do.

    Also I’m kinda surprised Trump didn’t pardon Dylann Roof.

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    He still has one shot! No, sorry, I mean he has 3 shots remaining!

    He could do the George Carling thing… Upside down nailed to the cross and or launched from a Canon point blank on to a very thick concrete wall. And televise it.

    Its just a suggesting to make the best of things.

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    It’s odd when you think about it. Republicans don’t want abortion but whole heartedly support executions. Democrats are against executions but whole heartedly support abortion. Welcome to America.

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      Conservatives aren’t anti-murder, they are pro-suffering.
      They are anti-abortion, because they don’t ever get a chance to make the fetus suffer. And golly, the mother barely gets dehumanized at all.
      Just think about all the in suffering that fetus skipped by not getting a disease that is easily preventable with a vaccination, and also, it will never know the hell of getting sick from drinking raw milk.

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      It’s more odd to me that the ones who believe in original sin and forgiveness for everything are the ones anti-abortion and pro-execution.

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      What sits particularly strange to me is democrats that are against capital execution, but for vigilante killings. Any argument to be made against capital execution is a hundredfold true for vigilante execution.

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        No, one is the state abusing it’s power vs an individual who may or may not be guilty.

        The other is an individual risking their life against hostis humani generis – ie, a brave hero.

        The vigilante in order to retain support has a much much much higher burden of proof than the state. The state has many opportunities to kill a man, but the vigilante must only attack those who are both obviously evil and obviously out of reach of the law.

        Luigi is popular because he met this burden of proof. If he had killed Jay-Z, or even P Diddy, it would not have been popular. After all, the law caught up with them. Before damage was done, no, our system isn’t designed to help people, but it did catch up. In contrast, matt gaetz is obviously evil, obviously outside of the law, and therefore an enemy of all mankind. Im not gonna do it, but I would applaud anyone willing to put their life on the line to take his.

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        Class comrades are class comrades.

        If you really don’t understand why, then I would point you to a quote from Warren Buffet.

        “There’s class war alright and it’s my class, the rich, that are waging the war and winning it.”

        Now class apologists will claim that WB was trying to foster class solidarity, but that fails to hold water under the scrutiny of his actions. Since, quite literally, the moment that he heard that one of his granddaughters had the temerity to give an interview to one of the Johnson & Johnson kids, he disowned her and hasn’t allowed her back in the last ≈ decade and a half, which seems to have had the desired effect since he has another dozen and a half children and grandchildren, and no one in that family has appeared on camera critical of the system since then.

        Source: The 1% documentary by said J&J heir

        Edit: Happy Holidays everyone. Remember that the good that you do for your local communities will spread farther than you’ll ever know.

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          Your reply isn’t really relevant to what they said. You can feel solidarity with Luigi and still think the murder was morally wrong and shouldn’t be celebrated.

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              No, he didn’t. Deluding ourselves of that will just stop the problem from being truly fixed. Just look at how many people’s take away from this is “maybe now CEOs will be nicer and more empathetic?”. I shouldn’t have to explain the problem with that, but I will expand on it by saying that the CEO is really just a scape goat; the real guilty ones are the owners, who are also the people that appoint CEOs, and who the CEOs have to please. This hasn’t solved anything, and without a systemic change things will just go back to the way they were; if only because we exist in a very fast news cycle and the average person will most likely soon forget and just go back to their daily rut.

              People want simple easy answers. This is true for everything, and it’s no less true now. It’s easy to sit at home and make memes and glorify someone else who - despite the fact I disagree with his methods - actually took action and did something, even if it meant risking comforts, privileges, or in this case even a death penalty; it makes people feel like they are doing something without having to take any real risks and without really changing anything, but it feels “effective” because it makes a lot of noise and creates a lot of headlines.

              If you really want change, then more needs to be done. And sure, one way would be for more to follow Luigi’s footsteps, but - and I won’t even go into the pitfalls of that path - if you have enough people on your side for that to be successful and not be prosecuted/defend yourself from prosecution, then you could achieve similar societal change peacefully by community building and through mutual aid; side step existing capitalist and government institutions. But that takes actual effort; that takes actual willpower to affect real change; that requires people to be okay with losing some comforts and privileges - this is also true for Luigi’s path, but the appealing part of Luigi’s path is that it “only takes a few” (which as previously stated I disagree with) to affect that change, and those few get to be “someone else” and never the “I” in question. The “I” in question gets to remain at home, on their device of choice, talking about how good-looking, and cool, and heroic the “some else” who took the risk is, and make memes about it.

              And that’s one reason I feel so bad for Luigi. While the CEO is the scapegoat of the true (or at least more powerful) capitalists, Luigi is the scape goat of “revolutionaries” who don’t really engage in any praxis.

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                That’s just like your opinion, man.

                Fact of the matter is that he absolutely did commit an act of community defence. He even alludes to that fact in his “manifesto”

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                  Did you bother to read anything I said? Saying you did something doesn’t make it true. Trump has also alluded that his foreign tariffs will bring prices down. Does that make it true?

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    When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening.

    That’s because like Trump, those people don’t understand justice, they only understand revenge. Trump thinks literally everyone is a horrendous person who wants to wantonly murder others just like him. Control over whether someone lives or dies is the ultimate control, and the one Trump craves most. It’s super clear why this is so upsetting to him, he got his favorite type of domination and control taken away. His toys.

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      Remember that Trump said that “Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening.” Without source, and can be dismissed as something he made up on the spot. The families of the victims are a mixture of reactions some are in support some opposed and some can’t be found for comment.

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      Justice is a feeling. It’s not a factual thing. You can’t scientifically deduce whether justice has been served or not in a specific case.

      Some people think eye for an eye is justice, some have other ideas of what justice is.

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        Yeah which is why we have legal guardrails - to protect us from folks who think “eye for an eye” is a sane way to operate in the 21st century. They can have their opinion, but I sure don’t want them setting what is legal.

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          I agree 100%, but I was never discussing what should be legal or illegal… Obviously any murder should be illegal. I don’t think anyone would disagree with that.

          That doesn’t change my opinion that sometimes murder is needed to affect change and sometimes it’s even the morally right thing to do…

          You honestly thought I was advocating for making murder legal?

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            Many people think murder shouldn’t be illegal actually (and unfortunately). We also have capital punishment in the states, which is just state sanctioned murder.

            obviously any murder should be illegal. I don’t think anyone would disagree with that.

            If you think it’s needed to affect change then I’m not sure you actually believe this statement as much as you say.

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          Exactly this. People with primitive fairy tales telling them what is “justice” should not be setting the rules for anything.

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        Check out restorative justice models. One in Colorado has boasted 95% victim satisfaction and recidivism crashed from 50 down to like 10%. We can use this data to demonstrate what justice models are better, regardless of a definitive definition.

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          I know those models and am all for them. I’m Scandinavian so I’m not at all for eye for an eye type of justice.

          The original comment I was replying to said something along the lines of “these people don’t understand justice”.

          I was just pointing out that justice is a feeling more than anything else. You can point out that restorative justice is a better way for society to go and it works better for most individuals too but if someone says that they don’t feel like justice has been served you can’t say they’re wrong.

          They just have a different opinion on what justice is.

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        Some people think the earth is flat - that doesn’t mean it is.

        Justice is a pretty nebulous abstract thing, I agree with that, but modern society has a pretty clear understanding that retribution isn’t Justice.

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          What does flat earth has to do with this? The shape of the earth is NOT an opinion. It’s a provable fact.

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        That’s why some people don’t get control over what happens to the convicted. We do know our justice system isnt perfect and makes more mastakes than what even the most rational person would find unacceptable. There is no going back once the state murders someone. And unless we have equal punishment for whomever caused a innocent person to be executed by the state. It should be outlawed in all cases.

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    Is trump cryingon social media about how he doesn’t get to kill 37 people on Christmas eve ?

    Nice move by sleepy joe i guess

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      Yea, this group largely believes an execution sends them to hell sooner to suffer more. As someone who isn’t religious, I’d rather they waste away in jail, as that is much more a punishment than a quick death.

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          Prison is an sentence, thus a form of punishment, as well as a rehabilitation procedure, as well as mean of protection of the public.

          Death sentence on the other hand, is a moronic form of punishment as well as ineffective,because it doesn’t prevent the crimes themselves

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            Prison is an sentence, thus a form of punishment, as well as a rehabilitation procedure, as well as mean of protection of the public.

            Not in the United States, it isn’t. The system isn’t designed to rehabilitate offenders; it’s designed to encourage recidivism:

            • Background and criminal record checks for jobs outside of high security or confidentiality fields.
            • Background check for renting housing post release.
            • Anti-homelessness and loitering laws.
            • In some states where it hasn’t yet been banned, criminals may have to pay back the prison as part of parole conditions.

            But, why would any civilized country allow that to happen? Because the 13th amendment has an exemption for criminals serving their punishment. Prisons can use inmates for mass labor and contracting while paying them a fraction of the value they are producing, generating profit.

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    Neither Orwell nor Bradbury nor Vonnegut could have come up with anything so bizarre and upside down as to have a complete criminal and felon pretend that he cares about law and order.

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    I can’t help but wonder if this is an assignment to “clear the wait list” for if/when Mangione gets convicted? I don’t quite understand the system but it seems many people on death row spend so many years waiting for the bureaucratic processes to complete before their lives are taken.

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      The processes that need to complete have very little to do with other death row inmates, so this doesn’t particularly make much sense.

      Death penalty cases ostensibly get the most “due process”, as you would expect, and the time is spent in appeals etc. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a barbaric system, we handle it terribly, and I’d say we routinely execute innocent people. But I can’t think of any way this clemency will help them kill Mangione much more quickly.