Posted on 12/18/2014 4:08:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of eight federal drug defendants on Wednesday, including four who were set to die in federal prison, as part of a new initiative to reduce harsh sentences for nonviolent crimes.
Sidney Earl Johnson, Jr., Rickey Marcell McCall, Larry Nailor and Israel Abel Torres had received life sentences and were going to die behind bars. But now Obama has commuted their sentences and those of four others who were convicted of drug crimes, and all eight inmates will be released in 2015.
Obama has taken heat for not making full use of his clemency and pardoning powers, and the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney has similarly been criticized for the way it has handled cases. Obama has now commuted the sentences of 18 people, which a White House official noted was more than either President Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush commuted during their administrations.
Deputy Attorney General James Cole said in a statement that the eight people granted clemency on Wednesday were "sentenced under outdated and unfair laws"(continued)
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Mareuel Boat lift Obama style
He will empty all federal prisons containing blacks, Hispanics and Muslims .....
Plus he’ll restore their voting privileges so that - dead or alive - they’ll always vote Democrat.
He’s on a roll.
The comments following the article must have written by paid Obama trolls.
They’ll make you want to take drugs.
So you see it too?
But a soldier who saved the lives of his comrades rots in prison still...
drug dealers rarely do their business peacefully. Steal from them and your life is over.
“Plus he’ll restore their voting privileges so that - dead or alive - they’ll always vote Democrat.”
I think the way it works that is up to the states...
You expected different from HuffPo???
No, but the trolls are even trying to hide at all these days.
He’ll save the pardons for 265 members of the Weather Underground until the morning of 1/20/17.
I refuse to read the remainder at the Puffington Post..
GTH Marxist Obama.
Let me guess. They could all be his sons. I’m right, aren’t I?
Un freekin’ believeable!
You aint seen nothin yet..
Anything to make America a worse place to live. Everything he does is meant to be ~in your face~.
“The comments following the article must have written by paid Obama trolls. They’ll make you want to take drugs.”
In a word, don’t!
Instead, get your CCW, get range time & practice firing from your vehicle whether moving or stopped. Those are skills we all are soon going to need.
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