Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency - eviltoast
  • djsoren19@yiffit.net
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    51 minutes ago

    Good! It was bullshit to just pardon his son. Everyone deserves a chance to escape this hellhole.

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    Others are advocating for Biden to commute the sentences of federal death row prisoners. His attorney general, Merrick Garland, paused federal executions. Biden had said on the campaign trail in 2020 that he wanted to end the death penalty but he never did, and now, with Trump coming back into office, it’s likely executions will resume. During his first term, Trump presided over an unprecedented number of federal executions, carried out during the height of the pandemic.

    Yeah, well watch that not happen.

    America’s bloodlust can never be satiated.

    Trump will probably bring back gladiatorial combat as a Twitter video exclusive.

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      Meh. These are people who were deemed too sick and old to be any kind of threat during the fucking Trump administration and released from prison back then because of the pandemic. These people should have all gotten pardons years ago, and it doesn’t do anything to alleviate or address all the suffering and human rights abuses being suffered by people who are actually in prisons.

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      46 minutes ago

      Sure it’s not nothing to the people pardoned.

      Edit: I am also wondering if you’re consistent with the people Trump pardoned or if you’re having double standards because it’s not your party. As I wouldn’t want ANY president pardoning family members, regardless of political leaning.