Candidate Joe Biden campaigned as an opponent of the death penalty. If he opposes it, he should stop putting people on death row. It's really that simple, Chris Geidner writes.
There is no question about the horror or tragedy of the bombings or about the toll they have taken. At trial, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyer didn’t deny he had committed “virtually all of the acts charged,” as the Justice Department acknowledged in its brief to the justices.
Before we get to that, though, it’s worth pointing again out that Biden told voters he opposes the death penalty. If he opposes it, then he must stop putting people on death row. It really is that simple. While Anders was arguing for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that the pretrial ruling meant lawyers for both sides and the judge were prevented from “learn[ing] whether jurors had been exposed to inadmissible and inflammatory publicity that could prejudice their consideration of the death penalty,” the Biden administration lawyer argued it was enough that the jury was “repeatedly admonished to disregard pretrial publicity” and asked about “potential bias” and “sources” of pretrial publicity, but not the...
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