White supremacist killer given lethal injection in first US federal execution since 2003

[misterx]

I remain opposed to capital punishment for anybody.

Too many have been found to be innocent after the fact.

In the past when the death penalty was more liberally used. I'm not a big fan of it either, there is a pretty good argument for its existence though as it can be used as leverage to give a family closure. People have refused to lead investigators to the dead bodies until they took the penalty off the table.

 

[misterx]

Exactly my POV!

And from what I've been reading, it seems that Chevie Kehoe, who received life sentence(s), did the most horrendous stuff, which Daniel refused to do, but still got executed. Nancy Mueller's (the murdered wife) mother even begged for the courts not to execute Daniel.

I read that too, but I didn't see why that is. Obviously Daniel refused to cooperate, did Kehoe agree to cooperate and give the family closure? If every member of the family wanted him spared the death penalty then he should have spared, but if it was just the mother-in-law, and everyone else wanted him to pay for what he did that's different.

 

[Anti Federalist]

In the past when the death penalty was more liberally used. I'm not a big fan of it either, there is a pretty good argument for its existence though as it can be used as leverage to give a family closure. People have refused to lead investigators to the dead bodies until they took the penalty off the table.

Yes, those points are valid, but to me, do not overcome the much larger injustice of the state routinely executing innocent people.

Pretty pointless to even argue about it right now though, when states are releasing violent felons by the thousands and no longer providing law enforcement response to property crimes and felony assaults.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

If he were a Somali black, president Trump might have pardoned him.

The two cases are like apples and grapes though or even more drastically different analogy would apply as underlying cases/narure of alleged crines are radically different.
Granted in that case Trump administration threatened Swedish government with "negative consequences" to get overturned Swedish Court conviction, that happened at the time when Trump administration led minorities outreach/social justice/prison reform campaign was at its peak and politics may have been a factor too possibly.

Wasn't he sentenced in 1999? He would not have been sentenced to death in the first place without incontrovertible evidence. I don't think it's right that the ringleader got life in prison while he got the death penalty, but maybe the ringleader cooperated.

True, it was 24 year old conviction. If justice is being uniformly applied, there can be cases where capital punishment may be warranted. At the same time, there have also been cases where prosecutors/public official "fried" people for political gains and there have been cases where innocent were falsely convicted. That said, there is no indication that political pressure (as happened in case of recent "syria bombing" decision) or coming elections/top donors played any role in this decision.