Yahoo Sports Tobias Harris after Brandon Bernard’s execution: ‘I don’t fight a death with a death’
Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris wasn’t happy following the federal execution of Brandon Bernard on Thursday night.
He took to Twitter on Friday morning and made that very clear with a simple hashtag.
— Tobias Harris (@tobias31) December 11, 2020
“I don’t fight a death with a death,” Harris said, via the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Tobias Harris: I don’t agree with the death penalty
Bernard was executed by lethal injection in Indiana on Thursday night by the federal government for his role in a double murder-robbery in 1999, when he was just 18 years old, according to The New York Times.
He was 40, which made him the youngest person in the country to receive a death sentence in nearly 70 years for a crime he committed as an adolescent, per CNN.
Bernard was one of five people convicted of the crime. Another was executed in September, while the others were given lesser sentences. Many, including Kim Kardashian, had urged President Donald Trump to spare Bernard — though he and the Supreme Court declined to intervene.
Bernard is the second federal inmate executed since Election Day, per the New York Times, and one of six scheduled before Trump leaves office.
Though he didn’t get involved with the specifics of Bernard’s case, Harris — who is set to start his 10th season in the league — doesn’t agree with the end result whatsoever.
“For me, [the death penalty] is something I never agreed with,” he said, via the Philadelphia Inquirer. “Coming up hearing about it, watching different movies about it, seeing yesterday obviously, which was another death penalty that did happen. It is something that I just don’t totally agree with. That is my personal opinion.”
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