WASHINGTON — President Biden is considering commuting the death sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 people currently on federal death row for murder, according to a new report.
In addition to several well-known and notorious murderers, five of them were accused of murdering their children, nine of them butchering their fellow inmates, and one of them was accused of raping and murdering his wife, a U.S. Marine. While serving a life sentence, he killed a prison guard with a hammer.
Attorney General Merrick Garland recommended that Biden, who opposes the death penalty, commute the sentences to life in prison in all but a few of the 40 cases. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The magazine did not report on the prisoners Garland urged Biden to spare, including Robert Bowers, who shot and killed 11 people at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, and Robert Bowers, who shot and killed 11 people at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue in 2015 This may include Dylann Roof, the racist who massacred nine black parishioners in 2017. Attack on Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber who along with his late brother killed three people and injured hundreds in 2013, is also on federal death row.
Recommendations from the attorney general are often a cover for presidents to take controversial actions, and the White House told the Journal that no final decision has been made yet.
How will the pardon affect pending cases, including federal prosecutors' pursuit of the death penalty in the impending trial of Peyton Gendron, who killed 10 people in a 2022 Buffalo, New York, grocery store shooting rampage? It is unclear whether it will be given. Black racism.
of federal death row inmate list Among them are Kaboni Savage, a Philadelphia drug dealer convicted of committing or ordering the murders of 12 people, including four children; This includes Thomas Sanders, who was then shot four times and had his throat cut. Her mother was also killed.
Others include Iuri Mikel, who was convicted of kidnapping and then killing five Russian and Georgian immigrants for ransom; This includes the man he murdered, Jorge Avila-Torres.
Biden has issued a number of controversial pardons and commutations this month, starting with a blanket pardon for his son Hunter Biden, 54, on December 1st. The eldest son was convicted of three federal gun felonies in June and pleaded guilty in 2019. In September, $1.4 million in tax evasion from overseas transactions that repeatedly implicated his father.
On Dec. 12, Biden commuted the sentences of about 1,500 people temporarily released from prison during the coronavirus pandemic.
The mass probation included Josephine Gray, the so-called “Black Widow,” who murdered two of her ex-husbands and another lover, and Rita Crundwell, a former auditor in Dixon, Illinois. It was discovered that it caused a backlash. He was convicted of stealing nearly $54 million over 20 years from a town of 15,000 people.
The newspaper has contacted the White House for comment.
