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7mo ago

Joe Biden Commutes Death Sentences of 37 Prisoners.

www.whitehouse.gov

FACT SHEET: President Biden Commutes the Sentences of 37 Individuals on Death Row | The White House

Oh look, the crypt keeper IS actually capable of using executive power for the rare good action. Do prisoners who had drug charges similar to Hunter's get released? No no, that's just for nepo babies. But at least he'll gesture at amnesty to pretend he's not nakedly abusing that power for it's own sake.

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7mo ago

Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row. These individuals will have their sentences reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole.

www.whitehouse.gov /briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/23/fact-sheet-president-biden-commutes-the-sentences-of-37-individuals-on-death-row/

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I'll be nice for once and say this is a not bad thing he didn't have to do
- Same. Let it be known by the libs that I do actually give their politicians credit when they do good things. This is unequivocally good.
  
  The guy is enthusiastically bankrolling a genocide, he deserves nothing but the wall.
- Nah, fuck that. This should be the absolute minimum. If a president can just do this, he should do this for literally every single person who ever gets a death sentence.
  
  actual human people are apparently not going to be executed that the following admin would almost certainly accelerate the process to kill. it's a good thing. it's not ENOUGH by any means but it is at least the correct direction of travel unlike pretty much every other Biden admin thing other than labour (which was also Not Nearly Enough). it goes without saying he would still get the wall. I can in fact hold both of these thoughts in my head at once just fine.
See tankies he did reduce harm after all
- I love how the presidents only do like one or two good things and it's always on the way out. So it gives them 4-8 years to just be a complete ghoul.
  
  The usual practice is to pardon a handful of people to improve the optics of pardoning cronies and rich campaign donors. They call them "packing peanuts", the people they pardon to protect the ones they really wanted to give them to.
federal death row
It's just so cool that we have this. Very normal country.
I bet you they ran out of kill juice and that's the real reason this is happening.
- When Trump was leaving office last time they literally went on a McKilling spree and McKilled thirteen people.
  The number of federal death sentences carried out under Trump since 2020 is more than in the previous 56 years combined, reducing the number of prisoners on federal death row by nearly a quarter.
  National Academy of Sciences Reports Four Percent of Death Row Inmates are Innocent
  Study from 2014. Four fucking percent!
  
  Four percent is too high for a false incarceration rate, let alone death row. Evil country.
- i mean it's cool when it's billionaires but
  would never
I have an ugly suspicion about the
aspect of this. But admittedly I haven't checked on that fully and could be wrong.
- There were fourty people on federal death row, only three left after the pardon: the Boston Marathon bomber, the Charleston church shooter, and the Boston synagogue shooter. So basically everyone except the mass murderers.
  
  Huh.... Pretty cool actually.
  
  Huh. I stand corrected. I guess I just automatically assume that everything Biden does is tinged with racism, I should not have assumed in this case.
I couldn't pardon Marcellus Williams because he was guilty, Jack
- Because the president can't pardon state crimes.
  
  Sure, but the president has a lot of power he can use to control a governor. Both through the legal powers of the presidency and extra-legal methods like sending them a picture of their spouse taken by a predator drone.
  
  The president could send in the military if he wanted to. All this "federal government can't" is BS and has been since the whiskey rebellion.
  
  Ah well nevertheless
  
  Oh, I thought it applied to all felonies
it woild be funny if he posthumously pardoned brian thompson for killing thousands of people
- He's in the wrong side of the class war for Biden to pardon him.
Congrats, you can suffer until your natural death.
There's no middle ground with this freak, it's either a blood bath or peace and love. Pull out of Afghanistan -> genocide in Palestine.
- I don't think biden's admin wanted to pull out of Afghanistan.
  
  Why would they want to stop that sweet money to defense contractors??
  
  Yeah, he probably begrudgingly did it after Trump cornered him into it. But he could have stopped it and he didn't. I'm just glad it got done.
- Trump started the afghan pullout
Those individuals will have their sentences reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole.
He didn't pardon them, he just changed their sentences to life in prison.
Maybe he's having that moment of clarity before death
- nah he's just doing this to fuck with all the other people on death row who are gonna still be murdered by the government
  
  There are three left and Trump is gonna kill them.
did less than the bare minimum. congrats

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