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The Democratic Party’s 2024 platform doesn’t mention the death penalty for the first time since 2004, a stark omission after formerly calling for the punishment to be reformed and then, in 2016 and 2020, abolished.
The Democrats quietly dropped abolishing the death penalty from their party platform. This is the first time since 2012 the platform doesn’t call for abolition and the first time since 2004 there’s no mention of the death penalty at all https://t.co/RhKtMJmmaa
— Jessica Schulberg (@jessicaschulb) August 22, 2024
Perhaps it’s part of the party’s law-and-order rebrand, with Kamala the Cop at the top of the ticket and a remarkable change in tone on policing matters. The new platform’s section on law enforcement opens with an ode to the police and insists: “We need to fund the police, not defund the police.” Indeed, the Democratic ticket has lost the support of Black Lives Matter. What happened to the spirit of 2020?
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