"The cruelty, as Adam Serwer reminded us almost a decade ago, is always the point. When you combine that obvious fact with people whose capacity to be vengeful pricks is well-nigh limitless. I'm not sure what you get, but whatever it is, it's not civilization in the 21st century meaning of the word. Lauren Gill at Bolts brings us the latest and the hateful. It seems that President Biden commuted 37 federal death sentences to life without parole."
"Trump denounced the move in a Christmas Day post on his social media platform, Truth Social, telling the prisoners to GO TO HELL! Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office that called for an expansion of the death penalty and maligned officials who have been critical of capital punishment."
"In early February, the day U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was sworn in, she ordered her staff to follow through on Trump's order and evaluate the placement of Biden's clemency recipients. The solution? Send the new life-without-parolees off to the closest thing the federal government has to a Devil's Island, except this one is in the far Rockies. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado's high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day locked alone inside concrete cells that are smaller than a standard parking space."
President Biden commuted 37 federal death sentences to life without parole, leaving three people on federal death row and halting a recent string of federal executions. The clemencies provoked a forceful political response that included an executive order seeking to expand the death penalty and a directive to review placement of the commuted prisoners. Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered evaluations of where the clemency recipients would be confined. The chosen confinement places many of the life-without-parole inmates in the federal supermax at ADX Florence, where prisoners are locked alone 22 to 24 hours daily in very small concrete cells.
Read at www.esquire.com
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