Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Gender: Male Posts: 13,577 Location: Seattle-ish
04 Aug 2023, 2:52 pm
I actually agree with the Slate take on this, that the whole trial and death sentence is a political farce so that Biden and Garland can virtue signal about how seriously they take hate crimes. Biden has claimed to be a criminal justice reformer and against the death penalty, and the shooter had a plea to take a life sentence, but the feds stepped in and spent a bunch of time and money to get this verdict which will likely never be enforced given the age of the defendant and the timeline for federal executions.
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