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Outgoing Biden continues to make headlines with his pardons…
According to a New York Post report, outgoing President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he has commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row — a list that includes at least five child killers and several mass murderers.
It’s a stunning act of clemency, leaving many Americans shocked — but it’s all part of Biden’s efforts “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.”
Here is the list of the names of the 37 people on death row who just had their death sentences commuted by Joe Biden.
Many of the people on the list are murderers and child killers.
There were 40 people on death row. Biden commuted the death sentence of 37 of them.
How… pic.twitter.com/hudp13zWvq
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) December 23, 2024
Biden, who opposes the death penalty, lowered each of the 37 sentences to life in prison without parole.
From The New York Post:
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.
Jorge Avila-Torrez sexually assaulted and stabbed to death two girls — Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9 — who had been riding their bicycles in their neighborhood in a suburb north of Chicago in 2005.
Four years later, he strangled naval officer Amanda Snell, 20, inside her barrack in Arlington, Va.
Iouri Mikhel, another clemency recipient, was convicted of murdering five Russian and Georgian immigrants after kidnapping them for ransom, which in some cases was paid before he killed them anyway.
Kaboni Savage, meanwhile, was convicted of committing or ordering the deaths of 12 people including four children as a Philadelphia drug dealer — while James Roane, Jr. participated in the murder of 11 people as a drug dealer in Richmond, Va.
Three men on federal death row did not get a commutation: Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who along with his brother killed three people in 2013; Robert Bowers, who killed 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine black Charleston churchgoers in 2015.
More over at The New York Post:
Biden commutes death sentences of child killers and mass murderers 2 days before Christmas https://t.co/NX7Fg292oD pic.twitter.com/HWqe9QK0U6
— New York Post (@nypost) December 23, 2024