Biden's dithering before raising Trump's record-low refugee cap, a campaign promise, left the president exposed to objection from other Democrats. And the delay in taking action about federal executions, another campaign commitment, exposes him to similar scrutiny from activists who supported him in the White House last year.
Biden's inaction is "frustrating" liberal Democrats, according to Robert Dunham, the Death Penalty Information Center’s executive director.
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While DPIC is neutral and nonpartisan, Dunham said that Biden's problem is increased by his party's slim majorities in Congress. That is because there are "practical consequences" to exercising presidential powers, he said.
"One of the things that I think that he must have learned from his time as vice president was, if you have an informal policy of doing nothing so that you don't issue any execution notices and you don't carry out any executions, all that accomplishes is kicking the can down the road so that there are more people on death row for the next president to execute," Dunham explained.
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Arizona's choice to refurbish a 1940s-era gas chamber and procure ingredients for hydrogen cyanide, the agent used by Nazi Germany at the Auschwitz concentration camp, has pushed the death penalty back into the political attention before the state intends to execute its first prisoner since 2014 in the fall.
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Arizona's move followed South Carolina last month voting to compensate the lethal injection drug shortage with firing squads, though a South Carolina court stepped in this week to hinder the killing of Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday and Freddie Owens on June 25 as the state finalizes its firing squad procedures. The executions would have been South Carolina's first since 2011.
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The White House has been requested many times since inauguration when Biden is going to lean on Congress to pass death penalty reforms or act unilaterally by declaring a moratorium.
In a firm exchange with a reporter, White House press secretary Jen Psaki maintained that Biden is committed to stopping the death penalty and that his dilly-dallying is not indicative of a policy shift.
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"There's a legal process, and a Department of Justice process that would be standard in any scenario here," she announced.
The reporter pushed: "When did he change his mind on the death penalty?"
"I did not convey that he changed his mind," Psaki responded.
Back then, Biden's Justice Department is seeking the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombers.
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