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    If Obama could oversee Tsarnaev and Roof being sent to death row, then I highly doubt Biden will be handing out commutations like candy.
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    Obama is now to the right of Biden. Biden clearing death row out can’t be ruled out. It’s likely he does but we’ll have to wait and see but this is coming more and more into fruition any jurisdiction outside of a former slave state will not be executing on a regular basis anymore. Pretty soon it’ll be done with.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moh View Post
    Now that 13 federal inmates have been executed under President Trump, and now that there's a possibility President-elect Biden may commute all remaining federal death sentences once he assumes office, I do wonder why Attorneys General Barr and Rosen didn't set execution dates for the remaining federal death-row inmates whose appeals have been exhausted.

    As someone who supports capital punishment, I don't mean to sound ungrateful for President Trump having signed off on more federal executions in a year's time than any American president since Grover Cleveland. However, it seems to have been a partially wasted opportunity to execute all of the inmates who could have been executed--especially with a US Supreme Court (including even Chief Justice Roberts) that now seems highly amenable to letting executions proceed.
    If Chutkan didn't step in back last winter then they probably would've executed everyone.
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    That’s right Mike they could’ve executed everyone and now we’re at the mercy of Biden. If Barr was in office in 2017 we would’ve seen executions taken place in 2018. Trump however, put in incompetent Jeff Sessions in charge as Attorney General and all the Republican senators were idiotic enough to confirm him.
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    Biden urged to commute sentences of all 49 federal death row prisoners

    Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush lead calls for commutations Trump administration rushed to execute 13 death row inmates Podcast: Trump, the death penalty and America’s racist history Led by two prominent African American congresswomen, 35 Democrats have urged Joe Biden to commute the sentences of all 49 federal prisoners left on death row – days after the Trump administration finished its rush to kill 13 such prisoners.

    Early last Saturday Dustin Higgs, 48, became the last of those prisoners to be killed, after Trump lifted a long-standing moratorium on federal executions. Biden entered the White House on Wednesday. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, of the 49 people still on federal death row, 21 are white, 20 are black, seven are Latino and one is Asian. Among those prisoners is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of planting pressure-cooker bombs on the route of the Boston Marathon in April 2013, killing three and injuring 264. His death sentence was overturned last year, a decision that is now before the supreme court.

    In a letter sent to Biden on Friday, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Cori Bush of Missouri led lawmakers in calling on Biden “to take swift, decisive action”. “Commuting the death sentences of those on death row and ensuring that each person is provided with an adequate and unique re-sentencing process is a crucial first step in remedying this grave injustice,” they said.The representatives said they looked forward to the new administration enacting “just and restorative policies that will meaningfully transform our criminal legal system for the better”. Addressing Biden, they wrote: “By exercising your clemency power, you can ensure that there would be no one left on death row to kill.”

    Such a gesture, they said, would be “an unprecedented – but necessary – action to reverse systemic injustices and restore America’s moral standing.” Pressley has been consistently outspoken in her opposition to capital punishment. In July 2019, soon after Trump attorney general Bill Barr announced the lifting of a 16-year moratorium on federal executions, the Massachusetts Democrat proposed legislation to “prohibit the imposition of the death penalty for any violation of federal law, and for other purposes”. “The death penalty has no place in a just society,” Pressley said then.

    But by the time Trump left office, he had overseen the most executions by a US president in more than a century. Among those supporting the new appeal is Kelley Henry, a supervising assistant federal public defender based in Nashville and an attorney for Lisa Montgomery, who on 12 January became the first woman killed by the US government in nearly 70 years.

    “Congress is right,” Kelley told CNN on Friday. “President Biden must go further than just not carrying out executions and should immediately commute all federal death sentences.

    “When the supreme court, without any explanation, vacates lower court stays to allow the execution of a woman whose mental illness leaves her with no understanding of why she is being executed, we know the federal death penalty system is broken beyond repair.”

    ‘A lifetime of torture’: the story of the woman Trump is rushing to execute New White House press secretary Jen Psaki would not be drawn on specific plans to address the federal death penalty. “The president, as you know, has stated his opposition to the death penalty in the past,” Psaki said. “That remains his view. I don’t have anything more for you in terms of future actions or mechanisms, though.” Karen Bass of California, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York were among other well-known names to sign the letter to the new president. Appealing to Biden in December, Pressley said: “With a stroke of a pen, you can stop all federal executions.”

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.the...ences-prisoner
    Last edited by Neil; 01-24-2021 at 06:04 AM.

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    Montgomery literally had a calendar counting down the days until Trump left office, but sure, "No idea what was going on!" As for muh "no explanation" that's normal at SCOTUS. Just tell the democrats to pretend Montgomery was aborted 52 years past term. That'll cheer them up.
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    It’s possible that the Tsarnaev case will be taken up by SCOTUS tomorrow, the Biden DOJ will then have the chance to dismiss it or continue the Trump DOJ’s appeal.

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    As always, absolutely no mention of and no compassion for the victims of these murderers. No mention of the horrific crimes these people committed.

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    Of course these people have an agenda. The Democratic Party has leeched very leftward. Look who controls it Alexandria Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, etc. While most of the Republican Party still supports the Death Penalty the Democratic Party has moved from being tough on crime to social justice.

    No Democrat will ever carry out an execution again in this country. Willam Morva’s execution under Terry Mcaullife will be the last. I thought Northam would’ve but he is pushing for abolition and Virginia’s DP will be done with this year.

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    Political Correctness.

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