Originally published at: Biden Blocks Trump From Carrying Out Death Row Killing Spree - TPM – Talking Points Memo
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of all but three death row inmates to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, briefly citing Donald Trump’s bloodlust as a motivating factor. “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted,” he said in a statement. He…
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He has has to cause harm or death to someone.
Who is up?
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Kash Patel, a member of “a cabal of unelected tyrants," (h/t Kash Patel) is making a list and checking it twice.
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It’s interesting that three were left as-is, but perhaps the magnitude of this move would be clearer if we were given an idea of how many death row inmates have now been cleared. Is it 5, or 5,000?
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Something like 37 according to the White House web site. All now have life sentences except three who were not commuted. So none are released.
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Per WaPo, life without possibility of parole.
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Fatso will be so disappointed that he can’t show how tough he is by indulging in systemic barbarity.
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Thank you for doing this, Mr. President.
I hope he does this with Dr Fauchi, Ann Selzer and others who don’t have George Conway’s and Liz Cheney’s fame and fortune to defend themselves.
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Imagine how donnie would feel when the door slams shut on his cell. The only reason it is fantasy is some really demented voters thought it wise to vote for a guy looking at sentencing for the 34 felonies he was convicted of. They voted for a convicted criminal.
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Maybe Santa Claus will bring us a nice stroke or MI for Xmas. Fat Nixon might do go the way of Gigi in The Sopranos.
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I don’t think there was any “failure to communicate Trump’s thuggishness.” I think it’s what a near majority of the voters actually wanted. Let’s hope they get some glee out of watching the rest of us suffer, because that seems to have been a big motivator.
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“In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”
Oh look!
A Christian value.
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I could look this up, but I would rather ask it here: How many federal death row inmates have been exonerated? Either before or after execution.
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Or a humane one.
Works either way.
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Check out The Innocence Project’s website–they’re likely to have the receipts. They’re still reeling from Marcellus Williams’s execution a few months ago, and rightly so.
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I don’t understand why he spared the last three on death row. If it’s a moral stance, it doesn’t make sense. Either the Federal government killing people is right or it’s wrong. Period, full stop.
FWIW, I’m anti death penalty because juries can be fickle, judges can be unreliable. The government on the state or Federal level just can’t be trusted to get it right 100% of the time.
The last three Biden didn’t spare are obviously guilty on the face of it, but that’s the point. You can’t pick and choose. Either it’s right in principle or it’s wrong. What was Biden afraid of, that he spared those three?
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The Fox anchors were bitching about [the commutations] - blood lust.
ETA I’m doing PT several times each week and have to spend time on the exercise bike - where the public’s choices are Fox, ESPN, and ESPN2. Sometimes I really grow weary of living here.
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Someone said it was due to their being mass murderers.
ETA It’s in the story
In his statement, Biden pointed to the exception for “terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder” in his administration’s moratorium on federal executions.
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Maybe he’s looking forward to watching Trump squirm as he’s forced to choose between (1) allowing the execution of the White Nationalists Roof and Bowers and (2) commuting their sentences and thereby endorsing the murder of Black and Jewish Americans.
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