Posted on 11/02/2022 2:50:32 PM PDT by conservative98
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Republican Mehmet Oz for the state’s open United States Senate seat, says he is “actually very proud” of his record of helping free convicted killers from prison.
During a panel discussion in Erie County, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Fetterman touted his record on the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons where he oversaw the release of 13 convicted killers from prison and placed members on the board who sought to end mandatory life sentences for convicted first- and second-degree murderers.
Fetterman downplayed the release of convicted killers by the Board of Pardons, suggesting nearly all inmates released on his watch were “nonviolent” criminals.
“The overwhelming majority, 99 percent, of all that was nonviolent kinds of convictions that somebody made a mistake early in their lives or maybe during it because they were struggling with addictions or poverty or whatever reason,” Fetterman said. “And they ended up to go to live an upstanding life. And 10, 15, 20 years ago, they’re being punished for the rest of their lives.”
“They got a second chance to have their record clean … they were all nonviolent things and it’s thousands of people and I’m actually very proud of because giving somebody a second chance in their lives,” Fetterman said.
In a similar interview this week, Fetterman said he was “proud to run” on his record of springing convicted killers from prison in Pennsylvania.
Those whom Fetterman helped free from prison include a convicted second-degree murderer who was known as “a son of the devil” and who had allegedly threatened witnesses in the case with murder if they testified against him.
Likewise, Fetterman voted to free from prison a convicted murderer who killed a man with garden shears and sought to have a hitman murder his accomplice.
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Voters Send him back to The Munsters
If Pennsylvanians vote this nutburger into office they deserve him...
As a matter of fact,
I'm the composer of this gem I flooded FR with yesterday:
A little clarification;
Pennsylvania has a 2nd degree murder penalty of Life Without Parole . . . in the vernacular, Death By Imprisonment.
It is an unfair (in many minds if you consider what constitutes 2nd degree homicide) sentence many mama's of young boys who were stupid and are now gone forever.
I AM NOT A BLEEDING HEART . . . I'M JUST 'SPLAININ'
In a nutshell, 2nd degree is a catch-all when a judge wants to make a point, further an agenda or in fact follow the law because 2nd degree is often an open ended charge that doesn't constitute 1st degree, and often the perpetrator is questionably criminal.
Fetterman was one of many politicians that have striven to eliminate the LWOP charge and his efforts to get questionably guilty felons an opportunity to have a second chance.
I myself am 74 years old but in 1969 I became a felon . . . forever barred from owning the guns I lost in a boating accident by just a few months after passing the GCA of 1968.
Fetterman has so much more wrong with him, and is being seen as incapable of serving, but the releasing murderers is a comment not entirely in context
Someone should ask him if he supported releasing the 1/6 crowd or if his sense of mercy only extends to murderers.
Is Federman a quaker?
NEANDERTHAL is fast becoming a term not associated with a Dullard brute of a subhuman genetic make up.
What happened was bad archeology and now new finds and with the correct application of archeological techniques we are finding things like thread, tools, cave paintings are now believed to have been painted in caves by the Neanderthals themselves. So I guess we have to find another term Maybe dumb Brute would be more applicable.
If we had an honest media that would be the title of the story on every media outlet, Festerman lies about releasing only non violent criminals
Before or after the voter fraud? In an honest election he should win by 40! Points
RE: Voters are idiots who vote for Fetterman....
Age old question is whether Dems are abominably evil or inestimably stupid.
Maybe it won’t get sorted out until they go to Hell.
While I am certainly not making a diagnosis, my God, does the man have som epretty -— obvious -— features
Current research suggests Neanderthals were not less intelligent than us.
Touche
Damn Ooglok, you may want to get yourself a multi-colored, “pride” flag and start waving it.
Yes he does.
None of the murder victims were available for comment but you can bet they’ll all still be voting for Fetterman and the democrats.
Can’t stand either one, will probably just read FREE REPUBLIC on election night!
(Age old question is whether Dems are abominably evil or inestimably stupid)
It’s a good question
Oh...you could own a gun or two...if you thought you needed one.
Freegards.
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