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It’s certainly wonderful that Attorney General Garland has imposed a moratorium. It’s certainly wonderful that he withdrew many of the capital prosecutions that had been authorized under the Trump administration, but there’s more that, from an abolitionist perspective, (Biden) ought to be doing.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
When the president speaks and the president makes a statement about something, it typically galvanizes a national conversation, and if Biden were to come out against the death penalty and explain as I believe he should, the extent to which the death penalty damages American values … that provides a kind of example.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The only thing that’s consistent about the Biden administration’s death penalty policy is its inconsistency.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Steps to limit or abolish the death penalty don’t come easily politically.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Oklahoma is swimming upstream against the tide across the country.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
When a state or the federal government makes a commitment to execute people in bulk, to do it over a period of time in a way that doesn't give it a lot of time to adjust to errors and problems, that political momentum is often hard to resist.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The legitimacy of the death penalty is sustained by the illusive search for painless executions, we cannot be relied on to deliver executions which impose no more than pain than is necessary, and we certainly can't be relied on to impose executions that are compatible with contemporary standards of decency.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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