No Democrat presidential candidate has ever condemned the death penalty

                                                                                                            

Democratic socialists oppose the state death penalty not because we imagine some lurking goodness or innocence in depraved murderers . We understand that THE STATE is the state of the capitalist ruling class and THEIR death penalty a tool of the oppressors against the oppressed - which includes thousands of poor and working class individuals imprisoned in the " American Gulag ".

           We commend the Catholic Church for consistently condemning this STATE terrorism. Not a single " liberal " Democratic candidate for president has ever condemned the death penalty.

                  The state death penalty is not less odious than the satanic military industrial complex - admired only by the scoundrels of bellicose " patriotism ".