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Jorge Stolfi

Should Biden pardon Luigi Mangione?

Yeah, sure he is a cold-blooded murderer. But when Trump pardoned at least six cold-blooded murderers, the Right approved, and the Left just tsk-tsked, shrugged, and carried on...

If the institution of Presidential Pardon is not used to protect vile criminals from justice, what is it there for?

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Michael Westergaard
Nobody should be pardoned. I'd argue not even an innocent person should be pardoned, and much less a cold-blooded murderer. Powers are partitioned for a reason, and pardoning breaks that partitioning. An innocent person should be set free by the judiciary, not the executive. A guilty person should only be set free by the legislative. The executive should also not be able to make laws.
Jorge Stolfi

@michael

I would even argue that the Legislature should never make a law or decision that is specific to a person, group, or company. To get the effect you mention, it would have to make a law that applies to anyone who meets very broad conditions. Like cancelling the sentence of *everyone* who has been convicted of (say) only marijuana possession, or copyright, or buying a gun while using drugs, or... Or of *every* police officer who killed someone while trying to rob a bank...

Dec 26, 2024, 06:39 PM·Public·Web
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