There are currently 52 prisoners under Federal death sentences. As president, Biden has the power to commute those sentences to life in prison (or any lesser sentence, or even to issue pardons, which exonerates the person and erases the conviction). If he doesn't commute all those death sentences, he'll be proving once again he's a phony and a liar.
Biden may or may not be against the death penalty. But
he certainly isn't against killing. He was the leading Democratic Party
ally of Republican president Bush the Younger in beating the war drum
for invading Iraq (although these days he lies about that
well-documented fact). For eight years he was Barack "The Drone
Assassin" Obama's vice president. He promoted a strategy of
assassination of Taliban and Al-Qaeda figures.
Don't
misunderstand me. I'm fine with ridding the world of Islamofascists, who
are the worst totalitarian murders around. And the death penalty for
serial murderers and mass murderers I think is just and proper and
moral. I do wonder why a person who is a war hawk is against the death
penalty. It may be because his church, Roman Catholicism, is against it.
Anyway, if he doesn't commute those 52 Federal death sentences, we'll know he doesn't really mean it.
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