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Joe Biden opposes the death penalty. From a European perspective, it appears to be the only reasonable position, and it is not a controversial position in the United States either. In recent years, opinion polls show that just over 50 percent of the population supports the death penalty, compared to around 80 percent thirty years ago. But even then, public opinion was relaxed as to whether the alternative of “life imprisonment without the possibility of clemency” was incorporated into the issue.
However, Biden is the first politician to be elected president as he clearly showed his opposition in the election campaign. Barack Obama hovered over the target when terrorist crimes were mentioned, and former opponent of the death penalty Bill Clinton pushed executions both the year he was reelected governor and the year he was elected president; in Arkansas, the governor’s office can set execution dates, while in Texas, for example, the governor of Texas has no direct influence on executions.
