Posted on 12/23/2024 3:26:35 AM PST by Libloather
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.
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PURE EVIL!
The death sentences should be carried out immediately if there is no doubt. We shouldn’t be paying housing and feeding these animals.
Why do I have the feeling that this is connected to Biden’s upcoming trip to the Vatican in January? It will be his last as President.
If he was concerned about the Vatican how will he explain his love of abortion?
It was her job to follow capital crime cases start to finish. And explained the horrific nature of these crimes that aren't normally disclosed to the general public.
She converted me.
The pope agrees with him.
Biden trying to keep them out of hell for a while longer so it’s not so crowded for him.
Makes you wonder why Deep State bigfooted the Brian Thompson/Luigi Mangione case, doesn’t it...
And if it doesn’t, it bloody well should.
“But guided by my conscience and my experience...”
What a laugh. Biden is a sociopathetic liar and criminal. He got away with everything.
The Red Pope agrees with all destruction actions against The US .
He is the antichrist .
Pres Jill an adulteresses and abortion
loving demon is his ally.
GOD will JUDGE him!!!
I’m for the death penalty in principle. I’m against it in practice, meaning, I don’t trust our leftist government to do a lot of correct things, and sometimes sentence innocent people to death. There have been too many occasions where those in prison have been let free due to DNA evidence showing up later or some other situation proving that the person they have imprisoned for many years is indeed innocent of the crime of which they are accused. Therefore, I have no confidence that all those on death row are truly guilty.
However, I believe if they are guilty, they SHOULD be put to death. I just don’t trust our system to get it right all of the time. Maybe in the future?
Democrats are so proud of Joe.
Who were the other 3?
soon
At first I thought they were being released from prison all together! Thank goodness they’re at least still in jail.
It means just three federal inmates are still facing execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history.
Another headline -
Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates so Trump can’t have them executed
Vatican trip, must be for an exorcism.
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