Trump rages at Biden for wrecking his plans for executions: ‘Makes no sense’
Trump rages at Biden for wrecking his plans for executions: ‘Makes no sense’
Human rights experts praised Biden’s decision to commute death row sentences—which baffled death-penalty hawk Trump.
Summary
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life without parole, sparing all but three convicted of high-profile mass killings.
Biden framed the decision as a moral stance against federal executions, citing his legal background and belief in the dignity of human life.
Donald Trump criticized the move as senseless, vowing to reinstate the death penalty.
Reactions were mixed: some victims’ families condemned Biden, while others supported his decision. Human rights groups praised it as a significant step against capital punishment.
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When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening.
That's because like Trump, those people don't understand justice, they only understand revenge. Trump thinks literally everyone is a horrendous person who wants to wantonly murder others just like him. Control over whether someone lives or dies is the ultimate control, and the one Trump craves most. It's super clear why this is so upsetting to him, he got his favorite type of domination and control taken away. His toys.
Remember that Trump said that "Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening." Without source, and can be dismissed as something he made up on the spot. The families of the victims are a mixture of reactions some are in support some opposed and some can't be found for comment.
Justice is a feeling. It's not a factual thing. You can't scientifically deduce whether justice has been served or not in a specific case.
Some people think eye for an eye is justice, some have other ideas of what justice is.
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Exactly this. People with primitive fairy tales telling them what is "justice" should not be setting the rules for anything.
I agree 100%, but I was never discussing what should be legal or illegal.. Obviously any murder should be illegal. I don't think anyone would disagree with that.
That doesn't change my opinion that sometimes murder is needed to affect change and sometimes it's even the morally right thing to do..
You honestly thought I was advocating for making murder legal?
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I challenge you to find a single person arguing in favor of making murder legal. I've never seen or heard anyone do that.
I think it can be needed sometimes throughout history when the inequality between rich and poor becomes too great, that doesn't mean I think it should be legal..
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Back when slaves were legal it was illegal to kill a slave owner. I understand that and I think that's how it needed to be. You can't have laws that killing someone is legal.
On the other hand I don't morally condemn the slaves that rose up and actually did kill their "owners".
I absolutely can say something should be illegal but in certain cases I'm cool with it happening.
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No I did not gloss over that. I'm not sure how you could miss my point that much.
I think my example is entirely relevant. The reason I sometimes condone murder is when I don't find it morally wrong, so obviously that's also what the discussion is about.
You're whole argument about not being able to condone a criminal act without having to change the laws makes very little sense to me.
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Check out restorative justice models. One in Colorado has boasted 95% victim satisfaction and recidivism crashed from 50 down to like 10%. We can use this data to demonstrate what justice models are better, regardless of a definitive definition.
Yeah, but that's not profitable
I know those models and am all for them. I'm Scandinavian so I'm not at all for eye for an eye type of justice.
The original comment I was replying to said something along the lines of "these people don't understand justice".
I was just pointing out that justice is a feeling more than anything else. You can point out that restorative justice is a better way for society to go and it works better for most individuals too but if someone says that they don't feel like justice has been served you can't say they're wrong.
They just have a different opinion on what justice is.
Some people think the earth is flat - that doesn't mean it is.
Justice is a pretty nebulous abstract thing, I agree with that, but modern society has a pretty clear understanding that retribution isn't Justice.
What does flat earth has to do with this? The shape of the earth is NOT an opinion. It's a provable fact.
That's why some people don't get control over what happens to the convicted. We do know our justice system isnt perfect and makes more mastakes than what even the most rational person would find unacceptable. There is no going back once the state murders someone. And unless we have equal punishment for whomever caused a innocent person to be executed by the state. It should be outlawed in all cases.