the president did not commute the sentences of three people whose crimes included mass shootings or acts of terrorism: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two brothers responsible for the deadly Boston Marathon bombing in 2013; Dylann Roof, a White nationalist who massacred nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018.
I don’t agree with the death penalty on principle, so I understand why he didn’t commute those sentences, but I still think he should have.
For the lazy:
I don’t agree with the death penalty on principle, so I understand why he didn’t commute those sentences, but I still think he should have.
If he commuted those sentences, though, the narrative would focus on how Biden was being soft on mass murderers, and not on the death penalty itself.
Who cares? He doesn’t need to appear “tough on crime” for reelection.
Considering Biden’s actions with Israel, he is soft on mass murderers