President Biden Makes Death Penalty a Decision of Politics

President Biden commuted the sentences for 37 of 40 inmates on death row. What about the other three, you might ask. As ABC reports, they were too politically incorrect because their victims were black and Jewish.

• The three people on the federal execution list who were not on Biden's commutation list are Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing; Robert Bowers, who was convicted of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue antisemitic attack; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black churchgoers in a racially motivated shooting in South Carolina.

"But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level," Biden added.

Should we base our judgment on the worth of the murderer? Or should we judge based on the worth of the person who was murdered?

The death penalty, when applied appropriately, perfectly illustrates the value of human life. By holding someone accountable for the act of murder, society publicly affirms the intrinsic value of the victim. Conversely, letting the murderer go unpunished reflects an ideology of selfishness—an ideology chillingly encapsulated by the mother of the Uvalde, Texas school shooter. When asked about her son’s heinous act, she replied, “He had his reasons.”

For President Biden, however, it seems the value of human life is nothing more than a political calculation.