President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Josephine Gray, known as “Black Widow,” who was involved in the murders of her two husbands and her boyfriend and fraudulently collected life insurance proceeds.
Biden pardoned 1,499 people last week, in what the White House boasted was the largest single-day pardon in U.S. history. He also granted pardons to 39 people. However, some incidents have caused great anger.
Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday:
Among the 1,500 federal convicts granted clemency were those sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2002 for an insurance fraud scheme connected to the murders of three men between 1974 and 1996. Josephine Virginia Gray was also included. Gray received the same sentence again in 2006. After a series of appeals.
Gray, who collected $165,000 from three insurance settlements, was charged with murder by authorities in Maryland, but ultimately in federal court in 2002, the killer was found to have lost his estate and insurance money. He was convicted of insurance fraud for violating the so-called “Slayer's Rule,” which prohibits receiving insurance. From the death of the victim. Witnesses at Ms. Gray's various trials accused her of using intimidation tactics, including voodoo threats, to force silence. “It was mostly witchcraft,” said Lenlon Good, the brother of Gray's third victim. said of washington post In 2002.
Gray could not stand trial for murder in state court because Maryland's state attorney said his heavy federal sentence meant he was “certain to die in prison.”
Probably Gray 78she was released because the crime she was convicted of was “non-violent,” but the most violent charges possible were suppressed.
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