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Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates
Straight Arrow News ^ | December 23, 2024 | Craig Nigrelli

Posted on 12/23/2024 6:07:05 AM PST by Red Badger

President Biden commutes the sentences of most federal death row inmates. Calling it a “common sense revolution,” President-elect Donald Trump delivers a rally-style speech about the transition and policy, less than a month from taking office. And two big-name auto companies officially announce plans to join forces. These stories and more highlight your Unbiased Updates for Monday, Dec. 23, 2024.

President Joe Biden granted clemency to almost all the inmates on federal death row Monday morning, Dec. 23. Now, the sentences of 37 of the 40 people facing death will be commuted to life without parole.

“I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level,” Biden said in a statement. “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”

The three men not granted clemency are: Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015; Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers.

In 2021, the Justice Department imposed a moratorium on executions so it could review policies and procedures. No federal inmate has been executed during the Biden administration, though this year the DOJ said it would seek the death penalty for a white gunman who killed 10 Black people during a racially motivated shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York in 2022.

Biden’s move of presidential commutation, which is irreversible, comes just weeks before President-elect Trump takes office. Trump has said he would resume executions and may attempt to expand the crimes that qualify for capital punishment.


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To: Red Badger

Or, sometime within the last 4 years pushed for Federal legislation to end the death penalty?

And what I really want to know is when this piece of crap is going to apologize to the families that he’s denying justice to. Joe developed some sort of conscience or whatever, and now that convicted murderer is your next door neighbor.

How about all of those commuted be forced to live next door to this painfully dumb, corrupt and inept soon to be former president?


21 posted on 12/23/2024 6:27:07 AM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: Red Badger

The kids that work for Biden are making these things happen. No wonder it seems like the Presidency is being run like a child would run it…the interns have been making these things decisions. Shame on all Democrats for a huge scandal. USA security was jeopardizes.


22 posted on 12/23/2024 6:27:33 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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To: Red Badger

“Huh. What did I just sign?”

Joe Biden


23 posted on 12/23/2024 6:27:49 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

He knows that his whole administration are guilty of treason and deserves the death penalty.


24 posted on 12/23/2024 6:28:51 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: PGR88

Brandon didn’t do anything, the POTUS doesn’t even know if he’s afoot or hordeback.


25 posted on 12/23/2024 6:28:53 AM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Red Badger

Worse. The three killers whose sentences were NOT commuted murdered members of the base of Democrat voters. Too bad the little girls whose killer sentences were commuted couldn’t deliver Democrat bloc votes.


26 posted on 12/23/2024 6:29:33 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh; V_TWIN

I think a lot of people give Obama way too much credit. I am convinced 99% of the lawfare, DOJ, FBI, pardons, etc., are the result of the direct manipulation of Eric Holder.


27 posted on 12/23/2024 6:30:35 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Red Badger

Certainly, it will, getting the death penalty and having it carried out is rare to begin with, remove that chance all together and crimes that carry the possibility of getting the death penalty will increase.


28 posted on 12/23/2024 6:32:28 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: Red Badger

Some of these luvvies actually killed people while they were in prison. I pity the prison guards who have to deal with Biteme’s high-mindedness (at the taxpayers’ expense).


29 posted on 12/23/2024 6:33:24 AM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: Red Badger

You’re going to hell Joe. And not soon enough.


30 posted on 12/23/2024 6:34:38 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: Albion Wilde

Disgusting...an unrepentant criminal pardoning other criminals. Truly this pretender is THE worst president ever.


31 posted on 12/23/2024 6:35:57 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Red Badger
So let me get this straight so I understand what senile Joe (actually Obama), is saying to Americans...

If you kill a bunch of Black Democrats (Charleston), you still have to die.

If you kill a bunch of Jewish Democrats (Pittsburgh), you still have to die.

If you kill a few "miscellaneous" people but also injure 100s of liberal Democrat voters (Boston), you still have to die.

But all the other Federally-convicted killers of other categories of Americans get a free pass -you know, in the name of "compassion."

32 posted on 12/23/2024 6:38:09 AM PST by Towed_Jumper (Please remain seated until your civilization comes to a complete stop.)
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To: Red Badger

Bet the families of the murdered are seething


33 posted on 12/23/2024 6:42:16 AM PST by goodnesswins (Don’t be REALITY PHOBIC!)
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To: Towed_Jumper

Some pigs are more equal than others.................


34 posted on 12/23/2024 6:42:37 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t believe any of the bidet administration initiatives and actions in the last year have been enacted by the “big guy.” There is an overused autopen in the WH that somebody is operating without the knowledge of the crypt-keeper. Trump should look into the provenance of these commutations and pardons (and money handouts) and make sure they were reviewed by bidet, challenging them if it cannot be confirmed he had any knowledge of them.


35 posted on 12/23/2024 6:42:54 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Red Badger

Pedo Joe needs to be held resposible for every crime they commit after their release. Let’ Go Brandon! FJB!


36 posted on 12/23/2024 6:45:31 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (With a Congress that half of which is made up of foreigners and refugees, why do we need a U.N.?)
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To: Red Badger

If they are so against the death penalty and obviously believe that child Killers deserve to live, why are they bringing death penalty charges against Mangione, who just murdered one person? (Not to make light of that, just pointing out the double standards.)


37 posted on 12/23/2024 6:46:47 AM PST by kelly4c
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

Biden has no problem with child murderers...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/23/joe-biden-commutes-sentences-37-murderers-death-ro/

...”Among those whose sentences will be reduced are Kaboni Savage, who was convicted of committing or ordering the deaths of 12 people, including four children as he tried to expand his Philadelphia drug empire, and Thomas Sanders, who kidnapped and shot 12-year-old Lexis Roberts four times and cut her throat — after murdering her mother.

Others who will receive clemency are Iouri Mikhel, who was convicted of murdering five Russian and Georgian immigrants after kidnapping them for ransom and Jorge Avila-Torrez, a serial rapist who murdered two girls — aged 8 and 9 years old — and then slaughtered a female Naval officer four years later. “


38 posted on 12/23/2024 6:54:48 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: Made In The USA

What I don’t understand is, why is anything he is doing considered legal and binding? The whole country is talking about how unfit he is. Everybody knows and many people on the inside are coming out and talking about it, yet everybody’s just letting the guy continue to do who knows what unholy irreversible things. I think there was some discussion about a cognitively disabled person not being able to legally sign anything binding. If anything, such people should have a power of attorney over them, NOT have virtually unlimited power. We must be a laughing stock. The world sees us openly complain about having a weak, demented leader who really hasn’t been the one in charge all these years only to turn around and leave him in power, then complain helplessly about what he’s doing. I think I get it, nobody wants to let Kamala have that title for even a day and go down in the history books because she doesn’t deserve it. They set it up rather well didn’t they?


39 posted on 12/23/2024 6:59:15 AM PST by kelly4c
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To: PGR88

“Huh. What did I just sign?”
Joe Biden

“An order for more pudding.”
Joe’s handlers


40 posted on 12/23/2024 6:59:53 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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