I took it for granted that a leftist like Bernie Sanders would be opposed to the death penalty. Still, I was truly shocked to see Sanders — not in some throwaway comment on the campaign trail but in prepared remarks on the Senate floor — flatly call the death penalty “murder.” On his MSNBC show this morning, Al Sharpton played the clip to illustrate how Sanders is working to differentiate his policy positions from those of Hillary Clinton, who says she supports the death penalty in “rare” cases.

Question: how can we begin to explain the moral compass of liberals like Sanders who call imposing the death penalty on adults duly convicted of heinous crimes “murder,” but refer to the killing of innocent, unborn babies as “choice” or other grotesque euphemisms like “women’s health?”

Read the article “Bernie Sanders: Abortion is ‘Choice’ but Death Penalty is ‘Murder’” on newsbusters.org.