Posted on 12/21/2024 2:22:41 AM PST by Libloather
WASHINGTON — President Biden is considering commuting the death sentences of most — if not all — of the 40 men currently on federal death row for murder, according to a new report.
In addition to a handful of well-known notorious killers, five of the men murdered children, nine butchered fellow inmates and one killed a prison guard with a hammer while serving a life sentence for raping and murdering his wife, a US Marine.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has recommended that Biden, who opposes capital punishment, commute the sentences to life imprisonment for all but a handful of the 40 cases, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The Journal did not report which prisoners Garland urged Biden not to spare, but they may include Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 people in 2018 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, and Dylann Roof, who massacred nine black parishioners in a racist 2015 attack on the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who with his late brother killed three and wounded hundreds in 2013, also is on federal death row.
Advisories from the attorney general often serve as cover for presidents to take controversial actions and the White House told the Journal that a final decision has not been made.
It’s unclear how the clemency would impact pending cases, including federal prosecutors’ request for a death sentence in the looming trial of Payton Gendron, who murdered 10 people in a 2022 mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY, allegedly motivated by anti-black racism.
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It's either Dr. Jill or Biden's staff.
I wonder if someone is forging Biden’s signature. If so, I think his pardons and executive orders would be invalid.
BiXiden’s new nick is “Killer Joe”?
So, what is the cost for pardons these days?
I will lose my shit if Kermit Gosnell is pardoned.
Someone ping me if this happens and I don’t see it first.
Pres Evil Jill is selling pardons. .
The adulteress and deadbeat unemployed kids are selling off the WH Hut to all .
The CCP is no longer sending the Fake Dr checks .
Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse. Biden probably doesn’t even know what he’s doing. Whoever is pushing his buttons is one(or more) evil scumbag(s). Disgusting. There is no justice under Biden’s admin, except for the Biden’s.
Another poke in Americans’ eye on the way out.
Talk about 20 January 2025 being the “end of an error”!
30 days baby, and this nightmare will be corrected.
Isn’t that the penalty for treason also biden!
No one is forging Biden’s signature, they just say, “sign here”.
Do it!
People will see better that Democrats don’t believe in enforcing law.
Those,pardons, while Christian grandmother’s and peaceful jwn 6 protestors languish in prison f9r praying and protesting, are a great big FU to the nation as th3y and biden leaves the whitehouse
Liberals are one of the biggest groups of childish, immature, vengeful people on the planet- they never forget, and their mission is to destroy anyone thay doesn’t agree with them. We jusy witnessed them conduct a presidency of tyranny on the order of Russian or chinese or Saudi level tyranny, abusing their power and position by imprisoning their opponents out of sheer spite and vengeance for Hillary and al Gore and biden losing the presidency, and for Bill being impeached- they are also still very very pissed about losing their slaves!
What do you expect with sociopathic criminals in charge at all levels of this corrupt MALadministration?
I wouldn’t be surprised if Gosnell IS pardoned. It’s something that the mean and evil Bidens would do.
Leftists are always very concerned about vile criminals, and have zero sympathy for victims and their families, and zero interest in justice.
Maybe this will all work out in favor for Republicans. During the pursuing elections all they will have to do is show news items about what the Democrats did before leaving the White House in 2025 and say “Do you want this to happen again?”
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