Biden commutes 37 of 40 Death Row sentences

[John8204]

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 inmates on federal death row, the White House said Monday.

The move reduces the sentence for all but three of the 40 inmates on federal death row. Biden said that the commutations are "consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions," with the exception of terrorism and hate-motivated mass killings.

The three people on the federal execution list who were not on Biden's commutation list are Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing; Robert Bowers, who was convicted of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue antisemitic attack; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black churchgoers in a racially motivated shooting in South Carolina.

According to the White House fact sheet about the move, the recipients of the commutations will have their sentences "reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole."

Wish we could get some governors to have the balls to do this.

[JohnnySic]

If they were on death row I'm sure the crimes they were convicted for were horrific.

Democrats. :facepalm

[JohnnySic]

I found this; some of those getting reduced sentences:




Thomas Sanders: Convicted for the horrific murder of 12-year-old Lexis Roberts, whom he shot four times and slit her throat, after killing her mother.

Jorge Avila-Torrez: Killed two young girls, Laura Hobbs (8) and Krystal Tobias (9), and later strangled Amanda Snell (20), a naval officer, in her barracks.

Kaboni Savage: A drug kingpin convicted of orchestrating the murder of six people, including four children, in a firebombing attack aimed at silencing a witness. The deliberate targeting of children and the use of arson to kill increase the severity of his crimes.

Iouri Mikhel: Involved in the kidnapping and subsequent murder of five immigrants despite receiving ransom payments.

Anthony Battle: While serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of his Marine wife, he murdered a prison guard with a hammer.

Lezmond Mitchell:Convicted for the brutal murder of a 63-year-old grandmother and her nine-year-old granddaughter in 2001. He forced the child to watch her grandmother's murder before killing her as well, with extreme cruelty, including mutilation.

Wesley Ira Purkey: Convicted of the violent rape, murder, and dismemberment of a 16-year-old girl, and the murder of an elderly woman.

Dustin Lee Honken: Murdered five people, including two men who were to testify against him and a mother with her two young daughters, to prevent them from testifying.

Daniel Lewis Lee: Part of a white supremacist group, he was convicted of murdering a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl. The method of execution (suffocation with plastic bags and duct tape, followed by disposal in water) adds to the cruelty of the act.

Alfred Bourgeois: Convicted of physically abusing, sexually molesting, and then beating to death his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter.

Thomas Silverstein: Known as "Terrible Tom," he was convicted of multiple murders, including the killing of a correctional officer in 1983. His history of violence while incarcerated, including the murder of inmates and guards, marks him as one of the most dangerous inmates.

Ronell Wilson: Convicted for the execution-style murders of two undercover NYPD detectives during a drug sting operation in 2003.

Richard Matthew Allen: Convicted of the 2017 murders of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, in a crime that shocked the state.

[Media Moderator]

Wish we could get some governors to have the balls to do this.

Liberal Logic: You need balls to be a pvssy

[Media Moderator]

You know this wouldn't have been as bad if Biden hadn't commuted this sentences of those who had killed children.

But all this is, is just a confirmation of what conservatives have been telling the morons who said Biden is a moderate Democrat. He may have been a moderate years ago, possibly even when he was running for president, but he lost control to the more extreme elements of his party either due to a rapidly declining mental state, or he was just a puppet who never really had control to begin with

[Hey Yo]

Biden: "this is to ensure a fair and effective justice system"


Yep... this is the dope that board Dems were going to vote for just 3mos. ago.

[rawimpact]

I don’t understand the reasoning… or it just doesn’t make sense. He stated he is taking them off death row because he doesn’t believe that should be a thing at the federal level. Okay that’s fair… but then why leave three people?

[highwhey]

:applause: greatest president ever. now the only thing left to do is pardon luigi for all crimes.

[j3lademaster]

I don’t understand the reasoning… or it just doesn’t make sense. He stated he is taking them off death row because he doesn’t believe that should be a thing at the federal level. Okay that’s fair… but then why leave three people?

The 3 he left off were convicted for crimes that were deemed terroristic.


Notably, the president did not commute the sentences of three people whose crimes included mass shootings or acts of terrorism: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two brothers responsible for the deadly Boston Marathon bombing in 2013; Dylann Roof, a White nationalist who massacred nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018.

[Lakers Legend#32]

Thank you, Mr. President

[Patrick Chewing]

If they were on death row I'm sure the crimes they were convicted for were horrific.

Democrats. :facepalm

Democrats jut keep doing shit to ensure they never get elected again.

[Media Moderator]

Thank you, Mr. President


Like Patrick said. You do know it's stupid sh*t like this that cost him and his dumb VP the election? I mean no matter how big a libtard you are, you do realize this right? Right?

[Media Moderator]

:applause: greatest president ever. now the only thing left to do is pardon luigi for all crimes.

He let men off the hook that killed innocent children in their homes. Men that deserved no less than torture and painful execution. But if it makes you feel better acting like an edgelord....

[Lakers Legend#32]

Like Patrick said. You do know it's stupid sh*t like this that cost him and his dumb VP the election? I mean no matter how big a libtard you are, you do realize this right? Right?

Musk won the election because he spent $220 million for it.

Also Redneck Murica would not vote for a black woman.

[j3lademaster]

He let men off the hook that killed innocent children in their homes. Men that deserved no less than torture and painful execution. But if it makes you feel better acting like an edgelord....

Did he let them off the hook or is he just throwing it back to the states to implement death penalties?

Federal should not supersede state laws, that’s the literal antithesis of small govt ideals.

[highwhey]

He let men off the hook that killed innocent children in their homes. Men that deserved no less than torture and painful execution. But if it makes you feel better acting like an edgelord....

you're an idiot with zero reading comprehension

[John8204]

I found this; some of those getting reduced sentences:


Thomas Sanders: Convicted for the horrific murder of 12-year-old Lexis Roberts, whom he shot four times and slit her throat, after killing her mother.

Jorge Avila-Torrez: Killed two young girls, Laura Hobbs (8) and Krystal Tobias (9), and later strangled Amanda Snell (20), a naval officer, in her barracks.

Kaboni Savage: A drug kingpin convicted of orchestrating the murder of six people, including four children, in a firebombing attack aimed at silencing a witness. The deliberate targeting of children and the use of arson to kill increase the severity of his crimes.

Iouri Mikhel: Involved in the kidnapping and subsequent murder of five immigrants despite receiving ransom payments.

Anthony Battle: While serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of his Marine wife, he murdered a prison guard with a hammer.

Lezmond Mitchell:Convicted for the brutal murder of a 63-year-old grandmother and her nine-year-old granddaughter in 2001. He forced the child to watch her grandmother's murder before killing her as well, with extreme cruelty, including mutilation.

Wesley Ira Purkey: Convicted of the violent rape, murder, and dismemberment of a 16-year-old girl, and the murder of an elderly woman.

Dustin Lee Honken: Murdered five people, including two men who were to testify against him and a mother with her two young daughters, to prevent them from testifying.

Daniel Lewis Lee: Part of a white supremacist group, he was convicted of murdering a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl. The method of execution (suffocation with plastic bags and duct tape, followed by disposal in water) adds to the cruelty of the act.

Alfred Bourgeois: Convicted of physically abusing, sexually molesting, and then beating to death his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter.

Thomas Silverstein: Known as "Terrible Tom," he was convicted of multiple murders, including the killing of a correctional officer in 1983. His history of violence while incarcerated, including the murder of inmates and guards, marks him as one of the most dangerous inmates.

Ronell Wilson: Convicted for the execution-style murders of two undercover NYPD detectives during a drug sting operation in 2003.

Richard Matthew Allen: Convicted of the 2017 murders of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, in a crime that shocked the state.

One of the big issues we have in this country is that right is filled with liars. Half the people on that list did not their sentences reduced because they were already executed.

Death penalty cases should only be used for the worst of the worst not just any random killer who didn't have the money for a good lawyer.

[MrFonzworth]

you're an idiot with zero reading comprehension

This. Hard to come across as dumb as he does itt.