President-elect Trump posted a statement on Truth Social today about President Biden’s decision to commute the sentences of most, but not all, federal death penalty prisoners.
I don’t always agree with President Trump but in this case he took the words right out of my mouth. This decision makes zero sense. If Biden was so against the death penalty as a matter of conscience, then he should have commuted all 40 death sentences. Instead, he carved out an explanation whereby Dylan Roof, the church shooter, Robert Bowers, the Tree of Live synagogue shooter, and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are still facing the death penalty.
I’m perfectly fine with that as they all deserve it. Bowers and Roof both killed innocent people at houses of worship. Tsarnaev helped kill 3 people including an 8-year-old boy and severely injured more than a dozen…