Under tremendous political pressure, Republican Governor Kevin Stitt (Kevin Stitt), one of Oklahoma’s most popular states, commuted his sentence on convicted murderer Julius Jones on Thursday. Death sentence. Stitt’s sentence reduction for Jones, Jones was convicted of first-degree carjacking murder in one of the most reliable states in favor of the death penalty, but this is only the latest disturbing data that indicates that the United States may eventually abolish the death penalty.
In 2020, the former president Donald Trump Instruct the then Attorney General William Barr Federal executions resumed after a 17-year suspension.From July 2020 to January 2021, Trump’s Ministry of Justice Supervised 13 executions. The first person executed during this time was Daniel Lewis Lee who robbed a family. As stated on the Ministry of Justice’s website at the time, “cover their heads with plastic bags, seal the bags with duct tape, and hold them down with stones. Each victim threw a family of three into the mouth of the Illinois River.” The last man executed, Dustin Higgs, was convicted of directing the murder of three women in a wildlife sanctuary. He died without regret.
But in July of this year, the president Joe Biden The attorney general Merrick Garland Federal executions were suspended again. “The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system not only obtains the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and laws, but also receives fair and humane treatment,” Garland said at the time. Of course, innocent unborn children do not need to apply.
Since then, Biden’s Department of Justice has been advocating the restoration of the death sentence for the 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He represents a typical case of the death penalty. However, it is against common sense to think that Tsarnaev can really meet his creator under the leadership of Uncle Joe. In June of this year, as the government announced plans to resume the federal suspension of enforcement, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said that Biden believes that the Justice Department should not “execute the death penalty.” Bates added that Biden “has made it clear that he is deeply concerned about whether the death penalty conforms to our basic values of justice and fairness.” In short, the Justice Department under Biden’s leadership is on such a politically sensitive issue. Confronting the president is a matter of the world.
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We must know that some people are in the U.S. Supreme Court Agree with Biden.In the case of 2015 Glossip v. Gross, A split 5-4 court upheld the constitutionality of using the drug midazolam in a “cocktail” to execute prisoners who were appropriately convicted of capital crimes.So many states-in this case Generalities, Oklahoma-Being forced to resort to the use of “cocktails” is disturbing in itself, which shows that pharmaceutical companies are working together to avoid any possible final form of punishing collusion.in his Generalities Dissent, justice Stephen Breyer, The late justice joins Ruth Bud Ginsberg, Advocating the practice of death penalty itself It is unconstitutional. Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a separate objection, but it is unbelievable that if the constitutionality of the whole procedure was directly submitted to the court, Justice Elena Kagan would not join Breyer. .
Broadly speaking, the death penalty is still popular: in 2020, Gallup reports that Americans support the maintenance of the death penalty for convicted murderers between 55% and 43%. But this support has dropped from 80% found by Gallup on the same issue in 1994 to 16%.Also, unfortunately, the death penalty is now if only Speaking in the context of the convicted murderer. Because the court’s decision in 2008 was seriously misleading, even child rapists are no longer eligible for the death penalty. Kennedy v. Louisiana.
For all the talkative liberals, when it comes to the so-called need to build an insurmountable guardrail for the death penalty, they are always talking, but the fact remains that our laws and our long-term tradition are the most in society. The worst of the bad people should face the ultimate punishment. This tradition is morally sound and is rooted in Leviticus 24:19-20: “A person who hurts his compatriots just like he will suffer the same hurt (ie, an eye for an eye, an eye for an eye ) Tooth for tooth. Just as he hurts people, he will also be hurt.” Where is the left’s sympathy for the victims of the most serious crimes known to mankind?
For some crimes, even life imprisonment without parole is not enough. If the classic definition of justice is to reward good and punish evil, then there is no more typical act of justice than the execution of a murderer.It is hoped that Stitt’s reduction of Jones’ sentence will not further put the United States in the wrong position-and injustice-Trails.
Josh Hammer Weekly newspaper Opinion editor, co-columnist and researcher of the Edmund Burke Foundation. Twitter: @josh_hammer.
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