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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