Posted on 12/23/2024 7:54:29 PM PST by thegagline
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) commended President Biden Monday for commuting the sentences of 37 federal inmates on death row, arguing that capital punishment is “racist.”
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Pressley, 50, described the 82-year-old commander in chief’s decision to spare dozens of convicted murderers and rapists from death as a “historic and groundbreaking act of compassion that will save lives, address the deep racial disparities in our criminal legal system, and send a powerful message about redemption, decency, and humanity.”
“The death penalty is a racist, flawed, and fundamentally unjust punishment that has no place in any society,” the congresswoman argued. “For far too long, it has been disproportionately weaponized against Black and brown communities, exacerbated systemic inequities, and failed to make America any safer — which is why we’ve urged the president for years to work with us to abolish the federal death penalty.” *** Jorge Avila-Torrez, 42, was among the federal prisoners on death row who saw their sentences reduced to life without parole.
Avila-Torrez was convicted of strangling 20-year-old Amanda Snell to death inside her Arlington, Va., Navy barrack in July 2009.
In addition to murdering Snell, in May 2005, Avila-Torrez sexually assaulted and murdered two young girls — Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9 — who had been riding their bicycles in their neighborhood in a suburb north of Chicago. *** The murderer also kidnapped and raped a Virginia graduate student in February 2010, a few months after he murdered Snell.
*** “I thank President Biden for heeding our calls and leading with compassion, and I encourage him to continue using his clemency authority in the final days of his presidency,” Pressley concluded.
The congresswoman made no mention of the victims, such as Amada Snell and the Hobbs sisters, killed by the federal inmates granted clemency.
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“The death penalty is a racist, flawed, and fundamentally unjust punishment that has no place in any society,”
Then why did he leave three people on it?
wy69
Weren’t they all white monsters?
What a useless idiot 🦧
A brave reporter should ask if it’s true that Pressley shines her bald head by using Turtle Wax?
“...What a useless idiot 🦧....”
Taxachusetts has been giving em to us for years now......
Black women's hair is not on my discussion list. It's a heavy burden in a vanity driven society. The words and actions speak for themselves. No need to get petty.
Yet the death penalty for babies is just fine with these whackos.
Maybe she’ll take them on the weekends
Stolen elections have consequences.
Even though I can’t stand Pressley, I guess I will sort of have to come to her defense on the hair, or lack of same. She has alopecia areata and has lost all her hair.
In her case, it’s alopecia. I think that community has its own issues with wigs.
Ayanna Pressley has alopecia, so can’t help being bald.
However, she used to wear a wig.
And she’s a dumb-dumb Squad member, who spouts radical nonsense!
She must have a “Van Jones” fixation.
Says the racist.
(Black women’s hair is not on my discussion list. )
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