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Letters: Biden’s loss of life penalty commutations guard in opposition to irreversible error

Editorial Board Published December 28, 2024
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Loss of life penaltymistakes are endlessly

Re: “Families, advocates react to Biden’s commutations” (Web page A4, Dec. 24).

President Biden not too long ago commuted 37 federal loss of life penalty circumstances to life in jail. This motion obtained combined reactions from the general public. I help the president’s motion for these three causes:

First, as a result of execution is ultimate and errors by witnesses, cops, prosecutors, protection attorneys, judges and jurors can’t be corrected. In such a case the loss of life penalty is simply as flawed because the crime that was charged.

Second, it’s simply as immoral for society to kill an individual as for a person to take action. We can’t declare to be a Christian or perhaps a ethical nation and nonetheless kill folks. Nevertheless, incarceration to guard society is justified.

Third, loss of life penalty trials, appeals and particular jail preparations value an excessive amount of cash. Our taxes are higher invested in schooling, drug diversion and rehabilitation of those that sometime shall be returning to society.

Ed GreenOakland

Mom Nature willdictate wharf’s future

Re: “Official says repair of obliterated wharf will likely be long process” (Web page A1, Dec. 25).

The Santa Cruz Wharf, a century-old image of coastal allure, faces an simple actuality: Mom Nature will decide its destiny. The latest partial collapse throughout a storm highlights its vulnerability to rising seas and intensifying climate. But, we proceed pouring thousands and thousands into short-term fixes, resisting the inevitability of nature’s forces. This knee-jerk preservation displays a deeper unwillingness to confront the supremacy of the ocean, which reclaims what is just not constructed to endure.

Propping up the wharf diverts sources from urgent neighborhood wants like reasonably priced housing, psychological well being providers and local weather resilience. Whereas the wharf’s legacy is necessary, clinging to it in its present kind is unsustainable. As a substitute, we should always honor its historical past by memorials and plan for a future aligned with nature’s energy.

Mom Nature can have the ultimate say. Appearing proactively is our probability to create a sustainable Santa Cruz that works with, not in opposition to, the ocean.

Chris TasikWalnut Creek

Mendacity is simply onereason to withstand Trump

Re: “Knee-jerk Trump hatred should stop now” (Web page A6, Dec. 17).

The headline on the Dec. 17 Letter to the Editor distorts the precise sense of the letter, which merely requires Donald Trump’s opponents “to tone down the rhetoric and the hatred” of Trump. Knee-jerk or not, nevertheless, causes for persevering with opposition to Trump deserve consideration and shouldn’t be brushed apart.

Of a number of causes for anti-Trumpism, a key ingredient of the Trump technique of explicit concern is his fixed mendacity. Think about Trump as the motive force of a car. To make sure public security, the regulation requires drivers to be able to seeing, deciphering, acknowledging and appearing based on actuality. Trump’s lies recorded in print and digital media predict that America is in for a wildly harmful journey beginning Jan. 20, when he takes the wheel.

Individuals are unwise to “pray for Trump’s success” given the flagrant dishonesty frequently guiding his actions.

Ruby MacDonaldEl Cerrito

Hanging Starbucksbaristas overplay hand

Re: “Baristas at more than 300 Starbucks stores walk out, union says” (Web page C7, Dec. 25).

Starbucks employees occurring a strike asking for extra wages is perhaps dooming themselves.

Espresso is overpriced as it’s. In the end, in the event that they get a elevate, it’s the purchasers who can pay for it. On prime of that, espresso store employees anticipate a tip.

I ended going to Starbucks and another store way back for overpriced coffees. As a substitute I repair a cup each morning from my residence.

Juan LoresRichmond

Alcoholics don’t chooseto have their illness

Re: “It’s time to talk about America’s alcoholism” (Web page A9, Dec. 22).

I need to thank Jane Hillstrom for this text.

I’ve one correction. Alcoholic dad and mom don’t love alcohol greater than they love their youngsters. They’ve a illness docs have described as a psychological obsession and a bodily craving. They don’t select to have this illness any a couple of would select to have most cancers or coronary heart illness.

DiAnn HillermanOakland

Gun possession wasessential to nation

Re: “Proponents must read entire 2nd Amendment” (Web page A6, Dec. 12).

At first look, the Second Modification to the Structure may seem to say that weapons are solely crucial for the aim of getting “a well-regulated militia,” but it surely’s demonstrably false to conclude that this was the one purpose “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Weapons have been a necessary a part of life (for searching and private or household protection) for many of our historical past, so the appropriate of personal residents to personal them was thought-about sacrosanct. (Limiting the kind or amount of firearms are totally different points.) The actual purpose for the militia quotation is as a result of the protection of the nation in opposition to enemies, international or home, was a principal concern of the federal authorities. And, even then, one of many first issues tyrants did was to disarm the folks.

Christopher AndrusDublin

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