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.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    17 hours ago

    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.

    • Determinism@kbin.earth
      1·
      4 hours ago

      humans aren’t responsible for their actions.

      Yes! Humans are indeed, not culpable for their actions because we have no free will.

      Now, I won’t go into the nuances of laws here, but I do find punishing people for the sake of punishment, or out of some sense of “they deserve it” to be problematic because all humans are innocent.