Almost Anti–Death Penalty | Carol Steiker | INQUEST
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Biden’s incomplete slate of commutations saved lives but lost the moral argument.
  • Ostrakon@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Sorry, but the three guys he didn’t pardon are fuckheads 100% deserving of death. There is no room for doubt of their guilt, and had they been shot mid-crime by cops nobody would have batted an eye.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
      10·
      2 days ago

      You could say all of that about plenty of the people he did pardon, so either he screwed up there or here by your logic.

      Ultimately, I think that logic is flawed, because what’s going on in these individual cases is irrelevant, giving the American government the authority to kill in cold blood in any case was a mistake that has been and will be abused.