Biden commutes all but 3 federal death sentences

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Biden had a chance here to take a moral stance against the death penalty and potentially impact policy going forward. By not commuting all of the sentences, including the military ones, he’s undermined his own position. It’s so hard to understand what this man stands for. He seems to stand for nothing.

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After Biden’s mass pardons and commutations, Democrats will have no space to complain about Trump pardoning the J6 defendants. Those people are low level criminals compared to the vicious murderers and other serious criminals Biden has helped.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh what a horrible thing to do. I'm anti death penalty but to lift everyone but 3 is senseless. Either you are against the concept or not. So all these other crimes can be forgiven? I feel bad for the families and all the people who had put in the work for getting justice. This is simply not the way to go about clemency and justice. Not by choosing which cases after a decision gets death penalty and not when the decision has been made to move forward.

The fact he thinks he's God to decide who gets saved is not about justice. This is exactly why Trump got voted in - this crap the Dems think is somehow a gift is exactly mortifying. There are people whose families were brutally murdered and now they will see no justice for their sufferings because one man decided it wasn't a bad enough crime! But oh - because he would be crucified over the letting go of more high profile crimes played out in the media, that means those murders can receive justice.

What a sham - makes me sick.

The three he didn’t commute are the Boston Marathon bomber, Tree of Life shooting, and Dylan Roof. All three of them motivated by bias and absolutely deserve the death penalty

What makes a murder based on “bias” worse than a murder based on random crime? This is very arbitrary.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the move. I feel like life in prison without parole is a better deterrent than the death penalty. And from a practical standpoint it costs the government more to sentence somebody to death (due to legal fees for the appeals process) than it does to house them in prison indefinitely.

Not to mention there is no method of execution that is able to overcome the “cruel or inhumane” punishment rule. Lethal injections have been failing and causing grueling painful deaths. There is no humane way to kill someone

Firing squad is pretty humane. Sniper round to the head, or squish someone under a massive falling weight. Or have them stand on a target and hit them with an artillery round like the North Koreans do. What’s inhumane about that?

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Anonymous wrote:After Biden’s mass pardons and commutations, Democrats will have no space to complain about Trump pardoning the J6 defendants. Those people are low level criminals compared to the vicious murderers and other serious criminals Biden has helped.

Very true.

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Anonymous wrote:Death penalty costs taxpayers more than life w/o parole. Biden saved us money AND did the civilized thing. Win, win.

Just going to ignore that the death penalty is expensive because death penalty opponents make it so?

If the goal is to make things cheaper then we could start with all the resources put into defending horrendous criminals who already received due process.

Every legal mechanism should be available in death penalty cases. If there is a mistake at any step you can’t just undo it. So yeah I fully support legal challenges.

And being provided a defense is a constitutional right.

At trial. And to meet rather low due process standards on appeal. Nothing actually requires the decades of legal process before execution. Again - look at Texas.

Texas has exonerated 50 people on death row.

Also - do any of those whose sentences were commuted claim to be legally and factually innocent - worthy of exoneration?

Commuted and exonerated are two different things.

Yes, big people are justifying Biden’s (or who ever is actually acting as President’s) actions by straw men arguments about court processes and innocent people being put to death. These 37 men are all guilty murderers.

And they will all still be in prison until they die.

You can’t predict the future and prove that.

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.

He changed his mind. You know like how Trump has a thousand times about abortion.

But Trump is not being sanctimonious as Biden is.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why he had to do this right before Christmas. All these poor families probably struggle with the holidays every single year and he just pour hot fresh pain into their hearts. He is such a scumbag. Such a morally bankrupt horrible man. Literally the complete opposite of the facade he pushed. Just a terrible man.

I know, I was thinking the same thing. No matter what you think about this, why couldn’t he have waited until after the holidays. The timing seems exceptionally cruel, almost deliberately so. It’s as if he hates the families of the victims and wants them to suffer.

You have a distorted perspective. These people are still going to live out their days and die in prison. They just won’t be killed by the government. It’s really nothing to get worked up about.

It is absolutely cruel to make the families of the victims deal with this right before the holidays. Biden could have waited until January and did not. He forced those poor families to have to grapple with this just before the holidays. It is grotesquely cruel behavior from Biden.

I can tell this will come as a surprise to you, but not everyone thinks it’s ok for the government to murder people. Even families of victims disagree on this. You have no idea what they believe or how they feel. Life without parole instead of death at the hands of the government is still a life sentence of hell on earth. Some would argue that it’s worse. They are not getting away with anything or being told what they did is ok.

Biden has been a devout Catholic his whole life. Many would argue that Christmas is exactly the time that someone would choose to stop more death.

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.

Why should any one decide a human being should be put to death? These criminals are not being pardoned. They will die in prison.

You mean other than the criminals who decided to put human beings to death?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why he had to do this right before Christmas. All these poor families probably struggle with the holidays every single year and he just pour hot fresh pain into their hearts. He is such a scumbag. Such a morally bankrupt horrible man. Literally the complete opposite of the facade he pushed. Just a terrible man.

I know, I was thinking the same thing. No matter what you think about this, why couldn’t he have waited until after the holidays. The timing seems exceptionally cruel, almost deliberately so. It’s as if he hates the families of the victims and wants them to suffer.

You have a distorted perspective. These people are still going to live out their days and die in prison. They just won’t be killed by the government. It’s really nothing to get worked up about.

It is absolutely cruel to make the families of the victims deal with this right before the holidays. Biden could have waited until January and did not. He forced those poor families to have to grapple with this just before the holidays. It is grotesquely cruel behavior from Biden.

I can tell this will come as a surprise to you, but not everyone thinks it’s ok for the government to murder people. Even families of victims disagree on this. You have no idea what they believe or how they feel. Life without parole instead of death at the hands of the government is still a life sentence of hell on earth. Some would argue that it’s worse. They are not getting away with anything or being told what they did is ok.

Biden has been a devout Catholic his whole life. Many would argue that Christmas is exactly the time that someone would choose to stop more death.

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.

Why should any one decide a human being should be put to death? These criminals are not being pardoned. They will die in prison.

You mean other than the criminals who decided to put human beings to death?

And other than women exercising their “right to choose.”

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Anonymous wrote:Far-left activists called for mass pardons/commutations, so Biden’s handlers jumped to fulfill their wishes. This move is pretty much par for the course for Democrats. They spend all their time worrying about being “humane” to criminals and illegal immigrants, and give the middle finger to law abiding Americans.

“Nationalism is the last refuge of scoundrels.” — Winston Churchill

Problem with your theory - migrants have lower rates of crime than other Americans . Don’t let inconvenient facts get in your way.

National studies
Studies have found that immigrants of all legal statuses commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens.

Undocumented immigrants
Undocumented immigrants have lower rates of offending for all types of violent and property crimes, including assault, sexual assault, robbery, burglary, theft, and arson. They are also less than half as likely to be arrested for drug offenses as U.S.-born citizens.

Incarceration rates
Immigrants have consistently had lower incarceration rates than U.S.-born individuals for 150 years.

Homicide conviction rates
Legal immigrants have the lowest homicide conviction rate, while illegal immigrants have a homicide conviction rate that is 15% below the native-born rate.

Crime rate trends
The national total crime rate dropped from 2,758 per 100,000 people to 2,335 per 100,000 people between 2017 and 2022, while the immigrant population grew by 1.7 million people.

Immigrants have been falsely accused of bringing crime into the United States, particularly during times of economic or political unease. However, research shows that welcoming immigrants into American communities can strengthen public safety

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate#:~:text=Every%20other%20violent%20and%20property,to%20constant%20throughout%20the%20period.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/immigrants-are-significantly-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-the-us-born/#:~:text=The%20study%20co%2Dauthors%20are,Insights%20at%20a%20later%20date.

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/debunking-myth-immigrants-and-crime#:~:text=However%2C%20a%20robust%20body%20of%20research%20shows,likely%20to%20commit%20crimes%20than%20the%20U.S.%2Dborn.

This is such a disgusting argument if you think about it. Are you really suggesting that we should tolerate even one violent crime from an undocumented immigrant because overall they offend at a lower rate? How do you ask a person to be the victim of that murder at the hands of the undocumented immigrant? Just gross.

Yes, native born and authorized immigrants commit crimes at way too high a rate in this country. But because they have constitutional protections, our ability to deal with crime from that cohort is more constrained.

On the other hand, crime committed by those who should not be here to begin with, even if committed at a lower relative rate is just so devastating to the victims.

So let’s put it this way, which would you rather have?

A. Higher crime rate but lower total crime, or

B. Lower crime rate but higher total crime (this is the one your arguing for).

Stop asking Americans to tolerate any more crime than absolutely necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why he had to do this right before Christmas. All these poor families probably struggle with the holidays every single year and he just pour hot fresh pain into their hearts. He is such a scumbag. Such a morally bankrupt horrible man. Literally the complete opposite of the facade he pushed. Just a terrible man.

I know, I was thinking the same thing. No matter what you think about this, why couldn’t he have waited until after the holidays. The timing seems exceptionally cruel, almost deliberately so. It’s as if he hates the families of the victims and wants them to suffer.

You have a distorted perspective. These people are still going to live out their days and die in prison. They just won’t be killed by the government. It’s really nothing to get worked up about.

It is absolutely cruel to make the families of the victims deal with this right before the holidays. Biden could have waited until January and did not. He forced those poor families to have to grapple with this just before the holidays. It is grotesquely cruel behavior from Biden.

I can tell this will come as a surprise to you, but not everyone thinks it’s ok for the government to murder people. Even families of victims disagree on this. You have no idea what they believe or how they feel. Life without parole instead of death at the hands of the government is still a life sentence of hell on earth. Some would argue that it’s worse. They are not getting away with anything or being told what they did is ok.

Biden has been a devout Catholic his whole life. Many would argue that Christmas is exactly the time that someone would choose to stop more death.

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.

Why should any one decide a human being should be put to death? These criminals are not being pardoned. They will die in prison.

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.

He’s doing en masse pardons based on certain criteria. Quit personalizing it.

Yeah, and he could have waited until after the holidays so the families of the victims wouldn’t have so horribly blindsided.

But the Democrats have never cared about crime victims, so why would Biden even think about how his actions might feel to the families of the victims? Of course he doesn’t care.

is that a joke? Children have been gunned down in their classrooms and all the Rs say is thoughts and prayers. How dare you even go there. Such audacity.

DP. So a few days before Christmas you want the to tell the families of children gunned down in classrooms that their murderers death sentence has been commuted.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why he had to do this right before Christmas. All these poor families probably struggle with the holidays every single year and he just pour hot fresh pain into their hearts. He is such a scumbag. Such a morally bankrupt horrible man. Literally the complete opposite of the facade he pushed. Just a terrible man.

I know, I was thinking the same thing. No matter what you think about this, why couldn’t he have waited until after the holidays. The timing seems exceptionally cruel, almost deliberately so. It’s as if he hates the families of the victims and wants them to suffer.

You have a distorted perspective. These people are still going to live out their days and die in prison. They just won’t be killed by the government. It’s really nothing to get worked up about.

It is absolutely cruel to make the families of the victims deal with this right before the holidays. Biden could have waited until January and did not. He forced those poor families to have to grapple with this just before the holidays. It is grotesquely cruel behavior from Biden.

I can tell this will come as a surprise to you, but not everyone thinks it’s ok for the government to murder people. Even families of victims disagree on this. You have no idea what they believe or how they feel. Life without parole instead of death at the hands of the government is still a life sentence of hell on earth. Some would argue that it’s worse. They are not getting away with anything or being told what they did is ok.

Biden has been a devout Catholic his whole life. Many would argue that Christmas is exactly the time that someone would choose to stop more death.

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.

Why should any one decide a human being should be put to death? These criminals are not being pardoned. They will die in prison.

You mean other than the criminals who decided to put human beings to death?

So we should all take the law into our own hands?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why he had to do this right before Christmas. All these poor families probably struggle with the holidays every single year and he just pour hot fresh pain into their hearts. He is such a scumbag. Such a morally bankrupt horrible man. Literally the complete opposite of the facade he pushed. Just a terrible man.

I know, I was thinking the same thing. No matter what you think about this, why couldn’t he have waited until after the holidays. The timing seems exceptionally cruel, almost deliberately so. It’s as if he hates the families of the victims and wants them to suffer.

You have a distorted perspective. These people are still going to live out their days and die in prison. They just won’t be killed by the government. It’s really nothing to get worked up about.

It is absolutely cruel to make the families of the victims deal with this right before the holidays. Biden could have waited until January and did not. He forced those poor families to have to grapple with this just before the holidays. It is grotesquely cruel behavior from Biden.

I can tell this will come as a surprise to you, but not everyone thinks it’s ok for the government to murder people. Even families of victims disagree on this. You have no idea what they believe or how they feel. Life without parole instead of death at the hands of the government is still a life sentence of hell on earth. Some would argue that it’s worse. They are not getting away with anything or being told what they did is ok.

Biden has been a devout Catholic his whole life. Many would argue that Christmas is exactly the time that someone would choose to stop more death.

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.

Why should any one decide a human being should be put to death? These criminals are not being pardoned. They will die in prison.

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.

He’s doing en masse pardons based on certain criteria. Quit personalizing it.

Yeah, and he could have waited until after the holidays so the families of the victims wouldn’t have so horribly blindsided.

But the Democrats have never cared about crime victims, so why would Biden even think about how his actions might feel to the families of the victims? Of course he doesn’t care.

is that a joke? Children have been gunned down in their classrooms and all the Rs say is thoughts and prayers. How dare you even go there. Such audacity.

DP. So a few days before Christmas you want the to tell the families of children gunned down in classrooms that their murderers death sentence has been commuted.

For context:

What I responded to.

Yeah, and he could have waited until after the holidays so the families of the victims wouldn’t have so horribly blindsided.

But the Democrats have never cared about crime victims, so why would Biden even think about how his actions might feel to the families of the victims? Of course he doesn’t care.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why he had to do this right before Christmas. All these poor families probably struggle with the holidays every single year and he just pour hot fresh pain into their hearts. He is such a scumbag. Such a morally bankrupt horrible man. Literally the complete opposite of the facade he pushed. Just a terrible man.

I know, I was thinking the same thing. No matter what you think about this, why couldn’t he have waited until after the holidays. The timing seems exceptionally cruel, almost deliberately so. It’s as if he hates the families of the victims and wants them to suffer.

You have a distorted perspective. These people are still going to live out their days and die in prison. They just won’t be killed by the government. It’s really nothing to get worked up about.

It is absolutely cruel to make the families of the victims deal with this right before the holidays. Biden could have waited until January and did not. He forced those poor families to have to grapple with this just before the holidays. It is grotesquely cruel behavior from Biden.

I can tell this will come as a surprise to you, but not everyone thinks it’s ok for the government to murder people. Even families of victims disagree on this. You have no idea what they believe or how they feel. Life without parole instead of death at the hands of the government is still a life sentence of hell on earth. Some would argue that it’s worse. They are not getting away with anything or being told what they did is ok.

Biden has been a devout Catholic his whole life. Many would argue that Christmas is exactly the time that someone would choose to stop more death.

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.

Why should any one decide a human being should be put to death? These criminals are not being pardoned. They will die in prison.

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.

He’s doing en masse pardons based on certain criteria. Quit personalizing it.

Yeah, and he could have waited until after the holidays so the families of the victims wouldn’t have so horribly blindsided.

But the Democrats have never cared about crime victims, so why would Biden even think about how his actions might feel to the families of the victims? Of course he doesn’t care.

is that a joke? Children have been gunned down in their classrooms and all the Rs say is thoughts and prayers. How dare you even go there. Such audacity.

DP. So a few days before Christmas you want the to tell the families of children gunned down in classrooms that their murderers death sentence has been commuted.

And not pardoned. Still in prison for the rest of their lives.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why he had to do this right before Christmas. All these poor families probably struggle with the holidays every single year and he just pour hot fresh pain into their hearts. He is such a scumbag. Such a morally bankrupt horrible man. Literally the complete opposite of the facade he pushed. Just a terrible man.

I know, I was thinking the same thing. No matter what you think about this, why couldn’t he have waited until after the holidays. The timing seems exceptionally cruel, almost deliberately so. It’s as if he hates the families of the victims and wants them to suffer.

You have a distorted perspective. These people are still going to live out their days and die in prison. They just won’t be killed by the government. It’s really nothing to get worked up about.

It is absolutely cruel to make the families of the victims deal with this right before the holidays. Biden could have waited until January and did not. He forced those poor families to have to grapple with this just before the holidays. It is grotesquely cruel behavior from Biden.

I can tell this will come as a surprise to you, but not everyone thinks it’s ok for the government to murder people. Even families of victims disagree on this. You have no idea what they believe or how they feel. Life without parole instead of death at the hands of the government is still a life sentence of hell on earth. Some would argue that it’s worse. They are not getting away with anything or being told what they did is ok.

Biden has been a devout Catholic his whole life. Many would argue that Christmas is exactly the time that someone would choose to stop more death.

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.

Why should any one decide a human being should be put to death? These criminals are not being pardoned. They will die in prison.

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.

He’s doing en masse pardons based on certain criteria. Quit personalizing it.

Yeah, and he could have waited until after the holidays so the families of the victims wouldn’t have so horribly blindsided.

But the Democrats have never cared about crime victims, so why would Biden even think about how his actions might feel to the families of the victims? Of course he doesn’t care.

is that a joke? Children have been gunned down in their classrooms and all the Rs say is thoughts and prayers. How dare you even go there. Such audacity.

DP. So a few days before Christmas you want the to tell the families of children gunned down in classrooms that their murderers death sentence has been commuted.

And not pardoned. Still in prison for the rest of their lives.

Maybe. Unless Biden part two decides he doesn’t agree with life in prison.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why he had to do this right before Christmas. All these poor families probably struggle with the holidays every single year and he just pour hot fresh pain into their hearts. He is such a scumbag. Such a morally bankrupt horrible man. Literally the complete opposite of the facade he pushed. Just a terrible man.

I know, I was thinking the same thing. No matter what you think about this, why couldn’t he have waited until after the holidays. The timing seems exceptionally cruel, almost deliberately so. It’s as if he hates the families of the victims and wants them to suffer.

You have a distorted perspective. These people are still going to live out their days and die in prison. They just won’t be killed by the government. It’s really nothing to get worked up about.

It is absolutely cruel to make the families of the victims deal with this right before the holidays. Biden could have waited until January and did not. He forced those poor families to have to grapple with this just before the holidays. It is grotesquely cruel behavior from Biden.

I can tell this will come as a surprise to you, but not everyone thinks it’s ok for the government to murder people. Even families of victims disagree on this. You have no idea what they believe or how they feel. Life without parole instead of death at the hands of the government is still a life sentence of hell on earth. Some would argue that it’s worse. They are not getting away with anything or being told what they did is ok.

Biden has been a devout Catholic his whole life. Many would argue that Christmas is exactly the time that someone would choose to stop more death.

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.

Why should any one decide a human being should be put to death? These criminals are not being pardoned. They will die in prison.

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.

He’s doing en masse pardons based on certain criteria. Quit personalizing it.

Yeah, and he could have waited until after the holidays so the families of the victims wouldn’t have so horribly blindsided.

But the Democrats have never cared about crime victims, so why would Biden even think about how his actions might feel to the families of the victims? Of course he doesn’t care.

is that a joke? Children have been gunned down in their classrooms and all the Rs say is thoughts and prayers. How dare you even go there. Such audacity.

Republicans aren’t the ones who just commuted the sentences of child killers.