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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency

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Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months ago
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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes.
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    Others are advocating for Biden to commute the sentences of federal death row prisoners. His attorney general, Merrick Garland, paused federal executions. Biden had said on the campaign trail in 2020 that he wanted to end the death penalty but he never did, and now, with Trump coming back into office, it’s likely executions will resume. During his first term, Trump presided over an unprecedented number of federal executions, carried out during the height of the pandemic.

    Yeah, well watch that not happen.

    America’s bloodlust can never be satiated.

    Trump will probably bring back gladiatorial combat as a Twitter video exclusive.

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      Put health insurance executives in the ring and I’m on board.

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      I was hoping Roberson would have gotten a reprieve. Bloodlust’s in Texas won’t listen to anything at all.

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    I can’t wait for crime to spike in Trump’s term and then have Biden blamed for it because of this.

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      You don’t need to wait. You can just scroll down to the other comments right now! :D

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      deleted by creator

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    Now pardon everyone convicted of nonviolent marijuana charges.

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      He already did, IIRC. I may be mistaken.

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        You would be correct

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          Correct about him doing it, or OP being mistaken?

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            About him doing it.

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    So which bus did he take for the commute?

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      I thought we established this, he’s an Amtrak man, damnit!

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      He ubered

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    Good news. I was hoping to see that Leonard Peltier in there. Free Leonard Peltier!

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