The Challenge: President Joe Biden commuting 37 of 40 federal death-row inmates’ sentences.
President Biden’s choice to commute the dying sentences for 37 of the 40 inmates on federal dying row shouldn’t be solely repugnant, but additionally illegitimate within the context of his rationalization (“Mercy for killers,” Dec. 24).
Biden proclaimed his categorical opposition to the dying penalty as his justification for this maneuver.
But he left three death-row inmates off the checklist.
He can’t have it each methods.
By leaving three inmates off his checklist, he belies his personal rationalization.
Peter Janoff
Stamford, Conn.
Biden has continued his marketing campaign in opposition to the American individuals by pardoning 37 individuals from dying row.
The criminals had the benefit of a trial.
Biden reveals his contempt for this method, and pretends that he’s above each juries and judges.
Civilized societies can do nothing however despair at this miscarriage of Biden’s “justice.”
What about justice for the remainder of us?
We are actually condemned to be topic to the actions of those evil individuals in the event that they’re ever launched.
Biden will go down in historical past as a destroyer of each respectable precept.
Elinor Hite
Carrollton, Texas
Though it’s gratifying that three of the worst human beings on the face of the Earth weren’t included, I’m sadly disillusioned in Biden for commuting the dying sentences of 37 killers.
He seized the wheels of justice from judges and juries who concluded that the crimes dedicated by these had been sufficiently critical as to justify the last word punishment.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
Is there any explicit cause the soon-to-be ex-President Biden commuted the dying sentences of 37 murderers, rapists and child-killers on federal dying row simply two days earlier than Christmas?
Couldn’t Biden wait till after the New 12 months in order to not destroy the vacations of the households of the victims?
Barry Koppel
Kew Gardens Hills
President Biden is dedicated to destroying the nation earlier than he leaves workplace.
I don’t consider within the dying penalty, but it surely’s our legislation.
And for a few of these individuals, there’s no manner their sentences ought to have been commuted.
Mindy Rader
New Metropolis
The Challenge: Chris Cillizza’s confession that he didn’t cowl President Biden’s psychological decline at CNN.
Chris Cillizza’s confession represents a symbolic and long-awaited mea culpa by the trade. It additionally symbolizes the decay of journalistic integrity that has plagued the trade (“A Psychological Mistake,” Dec. 21).
Maybe extra of the culprits could have the braveness to return ahead and eat crow.
Ronald Frank
West Orange, NJ
Had Cillizza reported the reality about President Biden’s psychological state again then, possibly 13 extra US navy personnel would nonetheless be alive at the moment.
I really feel much more saddened for the 13 units of oldsters who misplaced family members in Afghanistan.
By not reporting the true image of Biden’s psychological state, Cillizza and his press friends share a few of the blame for these deaths.
Peter Incardone
Lengthy Seashore, NJ
Democrats, particularly these within the media, insisted there was nothing uncommon about President Biden’s incoherence and bodily limitations all through his presidency.
They’ve now confirmed what the less-gullible amongst us knew all alongside.
The Democrats and their media cohorts served up the best political rip-off in our nation’s historical past and propped up somebody unfit to steer our nice nation.
Michael D’Auria
Bronxville
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