Biden betrays his moral standing in Buffalo: Death penalty decision reveals his true colors

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : And the administration has made decisions in high-profile cases that have raised eyebrows among death penalty opponents.
38% : As I noted at the start of last year, "The department is defending death sentences even when there are concerning issues, like intellectual disability or severe mental illness of defendants, or racial bias and prosecutorial misconduct in those cases.
36% : On the anti-death penalty side, in 2021 the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland imposed a moratorium on federal executions.
35% : "More to the point, in light of the announcement at the start of the Martin Luther King holiday weekend, in 2020 Biden had said that people convicted of even the most egregious crimes should not get death sentences, but "should instead serve life sentences without probation or parole.
21% : It continued other death cases started under Trump in instances of mass murder and domestic terrorism.

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