President Biden’s commutation of 37 federal death row inmates has reignited the national debate over capital punishment. In response, President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to “vigorously pursue” executions – a policy that Bryan Stevenson, acclaimed civil rights attorney, describes as “flawed, ill-fated, and unreliable.” Stevenson says capital punishment has “a shameful rate of error” and is “compromised by racial bias.” “We have the ability in this country to incapacitate people, to punish people, to hold people accountable, without killing them.”

We in the media and chattering class jeered at a man who probably improved more lives over a longer period than any recent president.