In one of his last acts as president, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal prisoners on death row (out of 40) to life sentences without parole.
This act of clemency stirred up an orange fury, with the result that all the prisoners have been transferred to ADX, a maximum security prison, where they are being kept in solitary confinement. They have now entered a plea with the courts, saying quite reasonably that there is no good reason for them to be reclassified, it’s all just sadistic cruelty by the administration.
There will be no such acts of clemency in the near future. Since 1988, there have been 16 federal execution, with 13 of those being enforced by Biden’s predecessor in the last six months of his office. The current proclamations demand the death penalty be used as often as possible and enforced quickly. He also wants to extend the range of the punishment to include non-capital offences such as drug trafficking. Of course, crimes by immigrants will receive the harshest sentence. This should apply to South African ketamine addicts, but probably won’t.
With the federal death row empty, they are trying to find a way to get death penalties for these prisoners at the state level. Aside from this, they are encouraging and assisting the states to use the death penalty as much as possible.
It’s a death cult, isn’t it? What is this obsession with killing people?