Biden’s jailbreak, death row edition

President Biden has commuted the death sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners. The White House has just posted Biden’s statement on the commutations here. The White House has also posted a “fact-sheet” on the commutations here.

These are documents of sickening dishonesty. Biden purports to rest his commutations on opposition to the death penalty — “I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level” — but Biden leaves out the Boston bomber, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, and Dylan Roof.

The fact-sheet exempts “cases of terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder…” Good old garden variety mass murder is not too loving either, but c’est la vie, so to speak.

Biden’s list includes at least five child killers and several mass murderers. Only a principled opposition to the death penalty could support the commutations, but Biden doesn’t go that far in his actions. The exceptions refute the stated principle of the commutations.

The White House’s stated rationale actually invokes President Trump: “[Biden’s] actions today will prevent the next Administration from carrying out the execution sentences that would not be handed down under current policy and practice.”

“Current policy and practice” would be Biden’s policy and practice. Biden has been kicked to the curb by the powers-that-be in his own party and is on his way out the door, but so what? Biden forever!

In the statement posted in his name Biden puts it this way: “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.” As I say, “Biden forever” seems to be the operative principle here.

The New York Post runs down the list to extract the child killers and mass murderers here. The Post counts nine who were found too dangerous to live after butchering fellow inmates — as part of Biden’s effort at “ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” according to the White House statement. It doesn’t add up, except in a giant middle-finger to Trump, to the law, to the system of criminal justice, and to the people of the United States for that matter.

POSTSCRIPT: We haven’t even gotten into the specific cases involving the pardons that Biden brags about in the fact sheet linked above. Chuck Ross focused on the happy recipient of one such pardon in the Washington Free Beacon story “‘Black Widow,’ Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden’s Historic Clemency Spree.”

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