Biden's Death Row Commutations May Be Silly and Illogical But We Aren't Serious About It Anyway

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.
42% : Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole.
42% : Note that these men have been on death row from 14 to 36 years.
40% : The three men left on death row are Robert Bowers (Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018), Dylann Roof (Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting in 2015), and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (2013 Boston Marathon bombing).
38% : These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.
35% : Now, Biden has done something similar, and in its way more unseemly, on death sentences.
26% : I also think the same claims of corrupt use of the power to pardon or commute sentences will be levied at President Trump when he exercises that power over the January 6 defendants.

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