Biden’s sickly distorted lens on crime and non-punishment

Published December 24, 2024 6:00am ET



What facts are important to report in a news story about President Joe Biden commuting death sentences for 37 murderers to life imprisonment?

The Associated Press’s answer is that the story must point out that during President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration, executions “may have happened fast enough to have contributed to the spread of coronavirus at a federal death row facility in Indiana.”

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