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.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    1 day 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
      5·
      1 day 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 Capital punishment is obsolete in my opinion, since we no longer need to execute people to ensure that they don’t present danger to the civilized population in the future.

    • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

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

        • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          1 day ago

          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.

          • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
            1·
            5 hours 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.