Trump Rages at Biden for Wrecking His Plans for Executions: ‘Makes No Sense’
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Human rights experts praised Biden’s decision to commute death-row sentences—which baffled death penalty hawk Trump.

Summary

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life without parole, sparing all but three convicted of high-profile mass killings.

Biden framed the decision as a moral stance against federal executions, citing his legal background and belief in the dignity of human life.

Donald Trump criticized the move as senseless, vowing to reinstate the death penalty.

Reactions were mixed: some victims’ families condemned Biden, while others supported his decision. Human rights groups praised it as a significant step against capital punishment.

  • dx1@lemmy.world
    53·
    14 hours ago

    View these through the lens of each politician acting in their personal self-interest (which both of them have thoroughly demonstrated to be their only priority). What do they care one way or the other? This is political theater where they’re playing with the lives of the people in question.

    • macattack@lemmy.world
      114·
      13 hours ago

      Yes, I also agree that the president that commuted many death sentences is exactly the same as the president wanting to execute all of the prisoners

      • dx1@lemmy.world
        26·
        11 hours ago

        No, you’re right, fuck me for saying that thing that I didn’t even say. Your made-the-fuck-up interpretation of my comment disproves anything I have to say. This is a really healthy discourse we’re having and it’s not a glaring red flag that you’re so completely full of shit that you can’t even have a conversation with the person in front of you, you have to invent a fictional version of them to argue with.

        • macattack@lemmy.world
          23·
          5 hours ago

          Can you reiterate what you were trying to say then? To me, these quotes sound reductive but perhaps there’s nuance I’m overlooking:

          each politician acting in their personal self-interest

          both of them have thoroughly demonstrated to be their only priority

          This is political theater where they’re playing with the lives of the people in question.

          • dx1@lemmy.world
            11·
            3 hours ago

            How are they “reductive”? They’re not purporting to be an exhaustive explanation. STOP TRYING TO INFER MEANING THAT ISN’T THERE.