J. Daryl Charles

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J. Daryl Charles is a 2024-25 Elshtain senior fellow at the Institute on Religion & Democracy and author of “The Idea and Significance of Natural Law: Fifty Questions and Answers” (2025), “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Ethics of War” (2024), and “Our Secular Vocation” (2023).

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    • Opinion

    Clemency and Capital Crimes: Biden’s Travesty of Injustice

    J. Daryl Charles
    Two days before Christmas 2024, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates. Five of these had murdered children; several had murdered multiple people and on separate occasions. Among those whose death sentence was commuted was Thomas Sanders, who on Sept. 8, 2010, in Louisiana kidnapped a 12-year-old girl,…
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