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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

I suppose Biden's reasoning is that, somehow, hate crimes are worse than crimes of lust, greed and passion.

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SGman's avatar

The three remaining - besides committing hate crimes - were mass murderers. That's a defensible baseline.

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

Kaboni Savage was convicted of killing 12 people, including a family of six killed in a firebombing. His sentence was commuted. Baselines are variable for liberals to adjust to match their current cause.

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Steve Berman's avatar

The Gift Jesus gave is not dependent on the severity of our crimes. I thank God for that “unspeakable gift.” At Christmas, commuting the death warrants on convicts is one of the more Christ-honoring things a president could do. It has me thinking of mercy.

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

I've read enough of your writings to be confident that you sincerely hold that belief. It's a belief I might could share except, deep down, I know my instincts would be more primitive if such atrocities were committed against my family. I certainly would not criticize your Christianity.

My original comment was more a question of Joe Biden's logic. He obviously has none. If he deeply feels that the death penalty is wrong, he would have commuted all federal death sentences.

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SGman's avatar

An important difference perhaps is that Savage acted more as a mob boss and didn't personally commit said firebombing. Regardless, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.

Nice try on attacking Democrats ('cause "liberals" being lower-case means your talking about all liberals - e.g. those that believe in liberalism) - but Tsarnaev makes that a poor attempt.

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