Democrats Pressure US Justice Department to Stop Seeking Death Penalty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "While the United States Congress considers legislation to abolish the death penalty, which has an unprecedented and growing level of support, the Department of Justice still has a moral obligation to take immediate, decisive action," the letter says.
46% : Bush made clear that ending capital punishment is just a starting point, declaring that "we must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the federal death penalty in our country."
44% : "The momentum behind abolishing the death penalty is growing and Attorney General Garland must act."
44% : "The momentum behind abolishing the death penalty is growing and Attorney General Garland must act.
44% : The letter points to President Joe Biden's pledge to end federal executions and pressure states to follow suit, and asserts that his administration "must fulfill its campaign promise and take bold action to abolish the death penalty and create a more just legal system."
42% : "Despite these realities, the death penalty continues to be imposed in an arbitrary and capricious manner."
40% : The letter also highlights how "racism is inextricably embedded in the history and application of the death penalty, resulting in the disproportionate killing of Black people," and that "the rate of innocence has proven to be particularly alarming."
38% : "Attorney General Garland took action on this injustice by instituting a moratorium on federal executions, but failed to maintain logical consistency by not directing federal prosecutors to stop seeking the death penalty," he added.
38% : However, the letter argues that "there are no procedural reforms that will eliminate the arbitrariness, anti-Blackness, or imperfectness of the death penalty.
37% : This can only be accomplished by putting an end to capital punishment."
31% : Just over a month after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland suspended federal executions, four congressional Democrats on Monday urged the Biden administration to formally direct Department of Justice prosecutors to no longer seek the death penalty.
31% : "After Trump's unprecedented killing spree in which he executed 13 Americans, more federal executions than in the last seven decades, it is beyond time for the death penalty to become a part of American history, not remain in America's present," Espaillat said Monday.
28% : In a letter (pdf) to Garland, Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), Cori Bush (D-Mo.), and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, write that "capital punishment is a deeply flawed and inhumane practice that the Department of Justice can and must discontinue."
26% : "Now the Biden administration must strengthen its moratorium on executions by formally directing federal prosecutors to no longer seek the death penalty, commuting the sentences of those on death row, and dismantling the death row facility at Terre Haute," she said.

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