The three federal death row inmates Biden chose not to save
The three federal death row inmates Biden chose not to save
Outgoing president decided to spare 37 condemned prisoners from the death chamber – but not three others
Those with remaining sentences are Robert D. Bowers, 52, who was sentenced in 2023 for killing 11 people during the Three of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in 2018; Dylann Roof, 30, who was sentenced in 2017 for killing nine people during a white-supremacist motivated mass shooting in South Carolina; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 31, who was sentenced in 2015 for carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing.
So what you're saying is Trump is probably going to pardon at least 2 of them.
That's Ambassador Roof, to you.
Only 2? You think he cares about Boston and Bostonians that much?
Yeah this is some top tier trolling.
You can't call your country a civilized society when capital punishment is still enforced.
Exactly, it's not about the broken people doing unspeakable things.
It's about stooping to their level as a society, about being loathsome enough to demand an eye for an eye instead of being compassionate in the face of cruelty.
Honestly, you show me a serial killer, and I'll show you someone who almost certainly has clinical sociopathy in addition to other diagnoses which means they belong in a maximum security psychiatric hospital for the rest of their lives out of public safety, just like the sociopaths who hoard extreme levels of wealth to buy politicians and hurt/murder people through policy beyond their single vote for private profit who are clearly mentally ill should be.
The thing about the US though, is that we are a bloodthirsty, vengeful, schaudenfreude addicted society.
I've heard my fellow Americans wish death upon the homeless without the slightest bit of shame, whose only crime was failing to be good capital batteries, on the basis of lowering property values.
It's true no society should be judged by their elite citizens, but by how we treat our prisoners. By that metric, there are few societies lower than ours with the world's largest, often for profit prison population provided virtually no rehabilitation and literally set up to fail when they get out.
We are a monstrous nation. Not the only monstrous nation by any means, but up there with the worst by the scale of cruelty inflicted.
Eh fuck those guys anyways.
Sorry, no. Disagree. There should not be exceptions to basic human rights no matter how terrible those people are. We have no problem keeping other people just as bad in federal supermax prison for life, and, in fact, that's where everyone else who got their sentences commuted will be going.
No state should have the power of life and death over its citizenry and exceptions to rules are not a good idea.
Fundamentally, I agree with you here, but on the way to getting there we are going to have to accept an ever-diminishing set of truly heinous crimes that merit execution until none do. That's just the nature of change here.
I'm certainly not losing any sleep over these guys. I hope we eventually get there, but fixing capital punishment for terrorists and mass murder is small potatoes compared to the outrages of the next four years.
That being said, Mangione being accused of terrorism sort of lays the fundamental flaw bare. When the government wants to kill someone, they will find a way to charge a capital crime for as long as they exist, so they must eventually be done away with.
No state should have the power of life and death over its citizenry and exceptions to rules are not a good idea.
That’s part of the definition of a state: monopoly over organized violence. Even in states where the death penalty is abolished the state still reserves the power to use the military to put down uprisings and that sort of thing. Plus in pretty much all states the officers of the state (the police) have the power to use lethal force. Without that power an outside group could take over by attacking the police.
Why even bother commuting the 37 if you're not going to do it for all of them? I feel like it's either you think death is an acceptable punishment or you don't. I've had it with Biden's half-ass everything.
Do you know the public backlash Biden would get for saving the Boston Bomber or the white supremacist who shot up a black church?
I mean, he clearly thinks death is an acceptable punishment, but only for the very worst of crimes, which he decided that 37 people didn't qualify for.
No no everything has to be black or white, left or right! We can't have critical thinking! /S
You really gonna go down as the guy who wanted to save mass murderers?
Death penalty bad.
From death? Sure, they're still in prison for life.
Biden has already gone down as supporting genocide to the end, so I don't think he's too worried about his legacy.