The three state killings came just two days after the Democrats’ sweeping victory in the November 3 midterm elections, which constituted a stunning repudiation of Trump’s policies on social inequality, war, the assault on immigrants and attacks on democratic rights. Yet a wide internet search turns up not a single comment from any Democrat on Thursday’s three executions.
Not that I wouldn’t be fine with seeing capital punishment abolished (as statistically shown by physical evidence-based exonerations, about 3-4% of convicted murderers are actually not guilty, so we really can’t be killing anyone as punishment with that kind of conviction error rate).
But there are several dozen other issues that are higher up on the Dems priority list to fix after the power shift, simply because they impact far many more people.