We must abolish the death penalty.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 25, 2024
Khaliifah Wiliams was lynched by the state of Missouri, aided and abetted by SCOTUS' bloodthirsty MAGA majority. This miscarriage of justice is sadly not out of character for our white supremacist nation.
The six Opus Dei robes really should consider something from the faith they share with President Biden:
[Even Augustine] understood justice is limited and often tempered with mercy, as he wrote to a Roman official:
Fulfil, Christian judge, the duty of an affectionate father; let your indignation against their crimes be tempered by considerations of humanity; be not provoked by the atrocity of their sinful deeds to gratify the passion of revenge, but rather be moved by the wounds which these deeds have inflicted on their own souls to exercise a desire to heal them.
And in another letter regarding a different case:
We beg you...to forget that you have the power of capital punishment, and not to forget our request. Nor let it appear to you an unimportant matter and beneath your notice, my most beloved and honoured son, that we ask you to spare the lives of the men on whose behalf we ask God to grant them repentance.
May Allah give you a great reward and console you.
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