Editorial: Biden strikes a blow against flawed death penalty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : In practice it is arbitrary, capricious, irrationally selective, up to five times more expensive than non-capital incarcerations, poisoned by racial bias and prone to the only miscarriage of justice for which no possible atonement exists.
57% : Preparing to leave the White House with the pledge unkept, he did the next best thing by commuting the sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row.
51% : "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% : "He left the surviving Boston Marathon bomber on death row, the antisemite who killed 11 worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and the white supremacist who killed nine African American worshippers at a church in Charleston after they had welcomed him to their prayer meeting.
38% : Capital punishment has no rightful place in a modern society, especially not when used so inconsistently.
17% : The immediate effect is to block Donald Trump from carrying out another flurry of executions like the 13 he ordered before the 2020 election.
13% : "I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky 'souls,' " Trump posted on Truth Social, "but instead, will say GO TO HELL!"That's consistent with what Trump often voices in other contexts, such as encouraging police brutality and urging the Jan. 6 rioters to "fight like hell."To hear Trump, one might think Biden had set the 37 men free.

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