President Joe Biden has granted clemency to some horrific felons, but appears to have saved the worst offenders for last.
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announced On Monday, the 82-year-old Democrat announced commuting the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates. Inmates would be able to continue living in prison at taxpayers' expense, rather than die for horrific crimes against children, U.S. military personnel, immigrants, police, prison guards, and others.
Some of the convicts Biden said escaped accountability from judges and juries.
Jorge Avila Torres, “The ultimate serial killer” In 2005, he kidnapped, raped, and brutally murdered two girls, Laura Hobbs (8 years old) and Crystal Tobias (9 years old). The beneficiary of Biden's sentence commutation not only subjected the girls to nightmarish sexual torture, but also stabbed them 20 times, including Hobbs. In her eyes, Tobias appeared eleven times.
Avila Torres also killed a 20-year-old
U.S. Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell In 2009, he raped and nearly killed another woman.
The man whose sentence Biden commuted ultimately shot the girl four times, cut her throat, and abandoned her body in the woods.
Biden also commuted the sentence of Thomas Sanders. federal jury in louisiana
announced In 2014, Sanders argued for the death penalty for the fall 2010 murders of Suellen Roberts and her 12-year-old daughter Lexis Roberts.
Two months into their relationship, Sanders took Suellen Roberts and her daughter on a trip to a wildlife park near the Grand Canyon over Labor Day weekend. On his way home, he took a dangerous detour and drove his victim to a secluded spot in the desert, where he shot Suellen Roberts in the head in front of her daughter, then held Lexis Roberts captive for several days.
The man whose sentence Biden commuted ultimately shot the girl four times, cut her throat, and dumped her body in the woods, where it was later discovered by hunters. The Justice Department said Lexis Roberts' throat was slit with such force that the knife left a knife mark inside her spinal cord.
Iori Mikel It also included the names of people whose sentences Biden had commuted. Mikel, a serial killer who immigrated to the United States from Russia, was sentenced to death in 2007 for kidnapping and brutally murdering five people.
After kidnapping the victim, Mikel and his comrade Julijus Kadamovas reportedly He extorted money from his family and friends. Despite receiving a multi-million ransom, the two murdered their captives anyway and abandoned them in a reservoir near Yosemite National Park.
Darryl Lawrence, another murderer who will now avoid the death penalty, killed Columbus police officer Brian Hurst during a bank robbery in 2005.
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white house listt Among those currently receiving reduced sentences are a number of murderers convicted of similar gruesome crimes.
Biden, a longtime abortion advocate, appears to think the death penalty for child rapists and police murderers is unconscionable. states He said the reduced sentence was guided by his “conscience” and his experience as a “public defender.”
“These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has placed on federal executions, except in cases of mass murder motivated by terrorism or hatred,” Biden said.
In early 2021, the Biden Justice Department
stopped Federal execution. At the time, Attorney General Merrick Garland said, “The Department of Justice ensures that all persons involved in the federal criminal justice system are not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States, but are also treated fairly and humanely.'' I have to do it.”
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shown In a speech announcing his 2024 presidential campaign, he said the death penalty has utility, especially for drug traffickers and human traffickers. left-wing activists, swore This is to fight the next administration on this issue.
“I believe more strongly than ever that we must end the death penalty at the federal level,” Biden said Monday. , I can't stand by and watch.''
Despite easily letting dozens of murderers get away with it, Biden indicated he would condemn them.[s] For the victims and pain of their dastardly acts[s] For all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss. ”
“Mr. Biden has dedicated his career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system. The United States will end the use of the death penalty at the federal level, except in cases motivated by terrorism or hatred,” the White House said. I believe we should.” Mass murder – that's why today's actions apply to all but those incidents. ”
The three murderers remaining on death row are Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who attacked Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015. and Robert Bowers, the terrorist who carried out the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in 2018.
Biden, whose approval ratings are at record lows, began his pardon campaign by granting a “full and unconditional” pardon to his son Hunter Biden, a convicted felon. He added thousands more to controversial pardons, including commuting the sentence of a disgraced former auditor who stole $53.7 million from a struggling Illinois city.
While the left-wing backlash against Biden's pardon has been muted, establishmentists and radicals appear to be panicking over President Trump's proposed amnesty for the peaceful January 6 protesters.
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