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On Monday, the Democrats approved their 2024 platform, which includes no mention of the death penalty. This year’s platform marks the first time since 2004 the platform has not mentioned the death penalty (the 2008 and 2012 platforms called for making the punishment less arbitrary).

Public support for the death penalty has been gradually declining. A Gallup poll last year found that 65% of Democrats oppose the punishment.

The Democratic National Committee did not respond to an email asking if the party still supports abolishing the death penalty.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240823120531/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-scrub-death-penalty-campaign-platform_n_66c67a0de4b0b9c7b360296b

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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The democratic party has been adopting a lot of conservatives left behind by Trump's republican party. I think this is resulting in a pretty strong divide between the younger leftists and the older bidenites. You can see this by the infighting over domestic policy like immigration, oil permits, economic policy, transportation, and this death penalty policy.

I think Kamala is basically straddling that line to keep the party together, adopting a bit from the left while avoiding any pain points for the right. She's definitely more left than Biden, but I think it's possible that the party could break apart into something like a new Socialist Party and a America Party, if Trump leaves politics and the republican party shrivels up.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a feeling that, in the very near future, the Republican party is going to fall apart, the Democratic party will shift to the right, and a new leftist party will emerge and draw off the Dems' left wing.

Assuming the Republicans' fascist takeover doesn't succeed, of course.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is pretty much the last shred of hope I have of fixing our future.