A cold-blooded murderer spared the death penalty by President Biden is now demanding full release — because prison is too bad.
Brandon Council, the 38-year-old man who murdered two mothers working in a bank, said Friday that the Indiana federal prison where he is being held is one of the worst prisons in the world and that solitary confinement is tantamount to illegal torture. filed a motion.
The convicted double murderer has endured “severe, unnecessary and unwarranted psychological harm” at FCI Terre Haute since his 2019 sentencing and deserves “compassionate release,” the statement said.
This situation “can only be accurately interpreted and assimilated as an act of torture,” the council argued. According to the Daily Mail.
The murderous con artist said in his complaint that the situation violated his constitutional rights based on his claims of “torture” and therefore he should be released.
The request comes just days after Biden infamously commuted the death sentences of the council and 36 other death row inmates on Dec. 23 in one of his final acts.
Because of the president's action, their sentences were commuted to life in prison instead of the death penalty.
The council handed down the death penalty in 2019 for the brutal 2017 murders of South Carolina bank employees and two mothers, 59-year-old Donna Major and 36-year-old Kathryn Skene. I received it.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina, Council entered the Crescom Bank in Conway that August day with the intent to kill. Without hesitation, he shot the major several times as she sat behind the counter. He then broke into Skeen's office and shot her, too.
He took $15,000 in cash and the keys to both of the victims' cars and fled.
Biden, who opposes the death penalty, acknowledged that the heinous crimes committed by the council and other death row inmates were “despicable acts” while granting leniency to those on death row.
After his actions, only three people remain on death row: Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, and Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.
A day after Biden's decision, Trump vowed to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” once he takes office on January 20.
This is not the first time the council has tried to change his sentence on similar grounds.
At least three times in 2019, 2022, and 2023, the council introduced motions to remove him from solitary confinement, arguing that the treatment was akin to torture and illegal. According to WMBF.
Both requests were reportedly denied.
Compassionate release is typically used for patients who are disabled or seriously ill.
Majors' family expressed disgust at Biden's decision, saying the president never consulted the family to find out how they felt.
“I'm still angry that something like this is happening, without talking to the victims, without any consideration for what we've been through and what we're going through. I am completely hurt, frustrated and angry that someone could make this decision,” Heather Turner, Major's daughter, told Fox & Friends.
The major's husband, Danny Jenkins, said of his slain wife:
“This man walked into the bank and didn't say a word to her. He shot her a total of three times. He went to shoot her co-worker, Katie Skene, and she I was completely defenseless and unaware of what was happening.”
