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| Biden commutes death sentences of child killers and mass murderers 2 days before Christmas | |
| 2024-12-23 | |
| [NY Post] Worst POTUS Evah! You can't hate him and his puppeteers enough They weren’t run over by a reindeer. President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row — a list that includes at least five child killers and several mass murders — in a stunning act of clemency just two days before Christmas. Biden, 82, gave the reprieve to the nation’s most violent murderers — nine of whom were found too dangerous to live after butchering fellow inmates — as part of his effort at “ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” the White House said. “Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden said in a statement. “But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.” Biden, who opposes the death penalty, lowered each of the 37 sentences to life in prison without parole. He did not say why specifically he considered the original penalties unjust. Among those receiving the holiday cheer is Thomas Sanders, who in 2010 kidnapped and then shot 12-year-Lexis Roberts four times and cut her throat in Louisiana — days after the girl watched as Sanders murdered her mother on a road trip near the Grand Canyon. Christmas also came early for Anthony Battle, who murdered an Atlanta prison guard with a hammer in 1994 while serving a life sentence for raping and murdering his wife, a US Marine, in 1987 at Camp Lejeune, NC. Jorge Avila-Torrez sexually assaulted and stabbed to death two girls — Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9 — who had been riding their bicycles in their neighborhood in a suburb north of Chicago in 2005. Four years later, he strangled naval officer Amanda Snell, 20, inside her barrack in Arlington, Va. Iouri Mikhel, another clemency recipient, was convicted of murdering five Russian and Georgian immigrants after kidnapping them for ransom, which in some cases was paid before he killed them anyway. Kaboni Savage, meanwhile, was convicted of committing or ordering the deaths of 12 people including four children as a Philadelphia drug dealer — while James Roane, Jr. participated in the murder of 11 people as a drug dealer in Richmond, Va. Three men on federal death row did not get a commutation: Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who along with his brother killed three people in 2013; Robert Bowers, who killed 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine black Charleston churchgoers in 2015. Biden has often flexed his presidential clemency powers in the past month. The retiring president on Dec. 1 issued a blanket pardon for his own son Hunter Biden, 54 — wiping the slate of his June conviction of three federal gun felonies and his September guilty plea to $1.4 million in tax fraud from foreign business dealings in which he repeatedly involved his father. Biden also commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people on Dec. 12 who had been temporarily released from prison during the COVID-19 pandemic — including Josephine Gray, the “Black Widow” who killed two of her ex-husbands and a third lover, and Rita Crundwell, who as comptroller of Dixon, Ill., stole nearly $54 million from the 15,000-person town over two decades.
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| Posted by:Frank G |
| #11 The Times of Israel has an interesting perspectiveon the commutations: Biden commutes nearly all federal death sentences, but not for Tree of Life shooter Move seen as effort to thwart Trump from jumpstarting executions; Biden keeps capital punishment for three men convicted of terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-12-23 15:38 |
| #10 /\ He still has time. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-12-23 11:43 |
| #9 I'm only surprised he didn't grant a preemptive pardon for Luigi. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-12-23 11:42 |
| #8 'Squad' Dem applauds Biden for sparing murderers from 'racist' death penalty in 11th-hour clemency move |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-12-23 11:41 |
| #7 ^^^Clayton county, no hope |
| Posted by: Beavis 2024-12-23 11:01 |
| #6 Upside Down World: Police Arrest Homeowner for Evicting Squatter |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-12-23 10:29 |
| #5 And as for child killers, remember this is the party of them. Professional courtesy at play. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-12-23 10:23 |
| #4 Evil recognizes its own. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2024-12-23 10:03 |
| #3 The victims got the death penalty, no due process, no appeal. “But" - everything preceding means nothing. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-12-23 08:01 |
| #2 Scranton Officials Demand for Biden’s Name to Be Removed from Landmark |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-12-23 08:00 |
| #1 Biden claims to oppose the death penalty as a matter of conscience, but he skips three guys because those would be too controversial politically. So, in the end, politics is his highest priority, or the highest priority of his staffers. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-12-23 07:46 |