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Victim’s shattered kin wants Biden to ‘explain to our faces’ stunning death-row Christmas clemency
NY Post ^ | 12/23/24 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 12/24/2024 4:26:59 AM PST by Libloather

President Biden needs to explain his death-sentence commutations “to our faces,” says the furious brother of a young female naval officer murdered by one of the “despicable’’ clemency recipients.

“I’d rather see it go back to the way it was, where he was sentenced to death,” said Alex Snell, 42, of Jorge Avila-Torrez, who fatally strangled Snell’s 20-year-old sister, Amanda Snell, in her Arlington, Va., barracks in July 2009.

“He should have gotten that penalty,” Snell told The Post of the killer — who also sexually assaulted and murdered two little girls and raped a grad student.

In a sweeping act of clemency, Biden lowered the death-penalty sentences of 37 of the feds’ 40 current death-row inmates to life in prison without parole.

Snell said he was in “disbelief” when he learned Biden had rubbed salt in the wound of grieving families by issuing the commutations two days before Christmas — and that he’s “angry that justice is not being served.

“Why does he need to get special treatment? He’s just going to risk other people,” Snell said of Avila-Torrez.

“What justification does [Biden] have for doing this? I want to have him explain to us, to our faces, why he chose to give them mercy when they didn’t give other people mercy.”

The savagery of Avila-Torrez’s crimes stand out even among the roster of some of the nation’s worst offenders.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: biden; christmas; clemency; deathrow; victims
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To: MayflowerMadam

Maybe the Biden crime family was paid off for Joe’s decision to pardon these killers.


21 posted on 12/24/2024 6:04:54 AM PST by chopperk (airhig)
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To: daler

“fears the Biden people will issue a blanket pardon for all illegal aliens.”

We could still kick them out, couldn’t we?


22 posted on 12/24/2024 6:33:24 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Libloather

A demented old tyrant throwing his remaining power around just because he can, a way to flip a departing finger to the country he has despised all his life.


23 posted on 12/24/2024 6:36:09 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Doctor Congo

I was wondering if that was the case. Basically, overturning a death sentence.

...anything more is just opening the gates of hell and letting dogs loose, which is unconscionable.


24 posted on 12/24/2024 6:58:09 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Libloather

btt. THIS ACLU CRAP HAS TO BE STOPPED AT BOTH STATE/FED LEVELS.


25 posted on 12/24/2024 7:21:16 AM PST by GailA (Welcome back Jesus and President Trump. We missed you.)
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To: Libloather

FJB explain something?

He doesn’t have a clue what “he” has done . . .


26 posted on 12/24/2024 7:29:42 AM PST by MCSETots ( )
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To: Libloather

biden, the bitter, decrepit old man, is not going to apologize. He got some kind of kickback for issuing the pardons, and he’ll soon be in the basement of one of his mansions so he doesn’t give a flying fornication about what families of the victims think.


27 posted on 12/24/2024 7:41:20 AM PST by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: Libloather

Disgusting, but expect the most outrageous Biden pardons are yet to come.


28 posted on 12/24/2024 8:27:21 AM PST by Will88 ((The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.))
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To: zeestephen

I doubt Trump refused it. It was stuck somewhere appeals probably. Nothing a president can do about that.


29 posted on 12/24/2024 8:31:06 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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