#beyond that it's an afront to Christian values and completely at odds with biblical teaching

[neonphoenix]

Note that Trump intends to execute the 40 people currently on federal death row, and that during his presidency he had 16 little executed over the course of a six month period - that's more federal executions than have been carried out under any president in the past hundred years and more, excluding military executions. Since the reinstitution of the federal death penalty in the eighties, only 16 people have been executed by the federal government. Bush had three prisoners executed after being elected. The rest were Trump.

If Biden chooses to commute these prisoners sentences to life in prison, as opposed to the death penalty, this will be off the table for Trump.

Even in situations where guilt is proven without a shadow of a doubt, the death penalty is expensive, and the countless appeals put forth on behalf of prisoners waste valuable time and resources of public lawyers and justices - far more resources than would be needed to hold prisoners for life.

I'd encourage anyone who is a citizen of the US to read up on the death penalty, and consider calling the White House to request that all federal prisoners on death row have their sentences be committed to life in prison.