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Monday, January 18, 2021

'Squad' Member Cori Bush Wants Biden To Grant Clemency To Everybody On Death Row

Submitted by Tyler Durden on Wed, 12/16/2020

The ‘Squad’s’ newest member Cori Bush is demanding President-elect Joe Biden move to grant clemency to everybody currently sitting on death row.  Bush’s view shows once again that there isn’t any level of criminal the group won’t embrace.  The Missouri Democrat made her views clear in an op-ed with Time Magazine on Monday.

“If [Biden] truly opposes the death penalty,” she wrote, “he must do everything in his power to stop it for good. Granting clemency to all on federal death row is his most effective tool.”

Bush went on to describe the death penalty as “murder in the name of justice” and drew a link between it and the dark stain of racism in American history.

“Ending the death penalty is about justice,” she argued, seemingly unaware that families of their victims need justice as well. “It’s about mercy. It’s about putting a stop to this nation’s dark history of lynching and slavery.”

“We must build a fair criminal-legal system on a foundation of mercy, due process and equity,” continued Bush. “We must break the cycles of death, devastation and trauma that have broken Black and brown communities like mine.”..........To Read More.....




 

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