
Of course it deters crime. No one killed via the death penalty killed again. |
Nope. The laws about life in prison can change. A president can release. A governor can release. |
I guess you don’t understand what terrorism is. |
Actually, that’s exactly what the presidential pardons are about. |
Joe cannot be dumped out of the White House and sent back to Rehoboth to suck on tapioca pudding for the remainder of his days fast enough.
His enablers should be held liable for lying to the American people for years that he was running the show, they probably can’t be prosecuted for it but they should at least be permanently exiled to the political wilderness and spend the rest of their lives writing make-work Atlantic columns that aren’t read outside of Georgetown and Park Slope, but I have a feeling the American people won’t be so lucky. |
This is at its heart the ultimate telling that Joe Biden is in charge of nothing. We do not have a President. Joe Biden is not anti-death penalty. This is some unknown person who has been given the powers of the Presidency. |
All of that can be true and it’s still phenomenally cruel to do this a few days before Christmas. It is truly shocking behavior. And if Biden is doing it because he feels his own feelings on Christmas are most important, that just demonstrates just how cruel and self-absorbed he is. I’m actually opposed to the death penalty and I find this astonishingly cruel from Biden and the Democrats. |
You seriously have no clue. |
Christmas is not about death but about life, specifically the birth of Christ. You might be thinking of Easter when Christ died. As to your other point, it is not the death penalty or a prison sentence that is the issue, it is bringing up the horrendous crime right before a holiday. Christmas might be emotional enough for the families and friends but to bring up the crimes on a global stage might only add to their sorrow. |
I suppose when Biden adamantly stated that he would not pardon Hunter Biden, no one could predict the future when he did, in fact, pardon Hunter Biden. |
Why should any one decide a human being should be put to death? These criminals are not being pardoned. They will die in prison. |
He changed his mind. You know like how Trump has a thousand times about abortion. |
I’m against the death penalty. But even I can see that how this was done (no advance warning the victims’ families, done days before Christmas/New Year, inconsistently applied) is horrific and cruel. There just isn’t another word for it. It’s cruel. I think Biden is trying to destroy the entire Democratic Party on his way out. Nobody with any heart can support what Biden did here, especially when combined with the other terrible clemency orders (cash for kids judge, lady who stole $55m from a town for her horse ranch, etc). This is all immoral at this point. |
Why do you assume people will feel victimized because the criminal gets life without parole instead of murdered by the government? Some of them might be opposed to the death penalty too. |
I might be ok with the death penalty for the 51 guys in the Gisele Pelicot case. Otherwise, there’s very few scenarios where it’s acceptable, especially with a dysfunctional legal system like this one. |