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Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
It's not fair, and it certainly isn't justice. Right now, @AyannaPressley and @RepEspaillat have introduced legislation to abolish the federal death penalty. Biden should commute the remaining sentences, and his DOJ should instruct US attys not to seek any more capital sentences. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Or maybe not. We don't know. We'll likely never know. But we know this: We live in a country where that kind of decision-making is legal and possible, where a matter as serious as life and death is left up to the intuitions, whims, prejudices of ordinary people. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Prosecutors who helped put Brandon Bernard on death row openly regretted the decision, and their arguments concerned the public. It's not difficult to imagine a particularly diabolical AG looking at these cases and thinking: Better get the hardest ones done fast. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
It makes some sense. Daniel Lewis Lee, the first to die, had some very vocal advocates — the surviving family members of the people he killed, who did not want him executed. Corey Johnson was clearly intellectually disabled. Lisa Montgomery was severely mentally ill. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Nobody had an answer that could account for all 13. But I did hear a fairly compelling theory arise again and again: It almost looked like, multiple attorneys said, the feds had chosen to execute the people who had the best shot at commutation under another administration. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Nor were the inmates the most difficult prisoners on federal death row. Some, like Brandon Bernard and Corey Johnson, had spotless disciplinary records, and were well-liked by their wardens. As I reported on these killings, I asked the many attorneys I met: Why your client? — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
There still hasn't been a satisfactory explanation for why the 13 who were put to death were chosen. They weren't the longest-serving. Their crimes were neither the oldest nor the most recent nor the most deadly. They didn't all involve children, or sexual assault, or torture. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
All of those factors stock our death rows. And they filled our federal death row, too, which meant that when Trump won in '16 and his DOJ busily set about replenishing the feds' supply of poison, decisions had to be made as to which of the inmates would be killed. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Juries are also much, much more likely to sentence a black person to death for killing a white person than any other racial perpetrator/victim combination. Black people who kill black people in extremely similar circumstances face much lower chances of being sentenced to die. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Death qualified juries are, for instance, more likely to convict at large than other juries. This means a person facing the death penalty has a heightened chance of conviction simply because of the composition of the jury itself. How is that fair? — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Then there's the problem of juries. SCOTUS has ruled that prosecutors can exclude people who object to the death penalty on juries in capital cases. This results in juries that are -- prior even to hearing the case -- "death-qualified," which turns out to be a curious sample. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Prosecutors can elect to pursue capital punishment in districts where it's legal, or they can elect not to do so. They don't owe anyone an explanation as to why one convicted murderer was sentenced to life and another very similar case resulted in death. It's their prerogative. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Objections from local communities — including Native American tribes, who've had quite enough of the federal government executing their members — don't matter. Or rather: They could matter. Prosecutorial discretion is another factor in the arbitrariness of capital punishment. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Their moratorium didn't hold, but the idea that capital punishment was repaired in the interim is incorrect. If the citizens of a state vote to ban the death penalty, a person convicted there can still receive it — if they accidentally, unknowingly happen to be on federal land. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
In 1972's Furman v. Georgia, SCOTUS found that the death penalty violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Why? Because, justices wrote, the punishment is applied arbitrarily, capriciously, more a matter of fortune than a well-regulated justice system. — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
If you were given dominion over 50 souls and tasked with executing any 13 of them, how would you decide who to kill? A thread. https://t.co/pDHH1E7ECv — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @ebruenig: Unless @POTUS joins @RepEspaillat and @AyannaPressley's effort to abolish the federal death penalty once and for all, another… — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @WaqarVick: "Killing machines are made to kill, as Homer wrote: 'The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.' As long as one brick of… — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @Bruno_J_Navarro: Abolish it. It may have political costs, but the other side of the scale is a basin of human blood. — @ebruenig htt… — PolitiTweet.org
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@careyhelmick have a painting made of this fr — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
Unless @POTUS joins @RepEspaillat and @AyannaPressley's effort to abolish the federal death penalty once and for all, another administration could easily and abruptly resume federal executions — just like Trump did. It's time to stop killing. https://t.co/lEPXBV3Aag — PolitiTweet.org
Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
RT @FrEdwardBeck: Yes @ebruenig The time has indeed come—long overdue. Abolish the Federal Death Penalty It can’t be fixed. It can’t be… — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @KFILE: Happy independence day to all my Albanian brothers and sisters. #Kosova13 https://t.co/9nolrN9oGE https://t.co/Ud05SFmSE7 — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @GenePark: I love Jack but I also miss our first family cat Sophie, who’s with my sister in Seattle. She’s a diva and a dame, loves list… — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @Phil_Mattingly: Life expectancy in the United States fell by a full year in the first six months of 2020, the federal government report… — PolitiTweet.org
