Sen. Eric Schmidt (R-Missouri) joined “The Faulkner Focus” on Monday to discuss President Joe Biden's plan to commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates, including mass murderers and child murderers. reacted to the decision. It was the “largest single-day pardon” in American history. Schmidt said the decision cements Biden's record as “one of the worst presidents” in American history.
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Eric Schmidt: It's two days before Christmas. I can only imagine the sadness and shock families are experiencing as they prepare for the holidays and have to endure this type of indignity, remembering the loved ones they have lost.
WASHINGTON DC – DECEMBER 19: US President Joe Biden listens to shouts from the press as he arrives at the White House on December 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Biden spent the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
And Joe Biden may have seen some of that in his efforts to “counter Trump.” For the incoming administration, whether it's hiding workers or hiding things near the border, this is simply beyond common sense. And I think he's solidifying his place as one of the worst presidents in American history, certainly an aspect of Woodrow Wilson. …It's important, as a former prosecutor myself, I think it's important to talk about the victims here. Lexis Roberts went on a camping trip with her mother and Thomas Sanders. On his way back, Thomas Sanders took her mother and executed her in cold blood in front of Lexis, before slitting Lexis Roberts' throat and leaving her to die in the woods. This is the man whose sentence Joe Biden decided to commute before Christmas. This is nuts. This is completely crazy. Therefore, this anger is real and justified. And once again, Joe Biden is on his way out of office, re-establishing himself as one of the worst presidents ever.
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President Biden will commute the sentences of nearly all federal death row inmates, less than two weeks after he issued the “largest single-day pardon” in U.S. history, the White House said Monday. It was announced on .
Of the 40 people on federal death row, Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 men sentenced to death, reclassifying them to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to DeathPenaltyInfo.org.
The three inmates not included are: Robert Bowers, the man responsible for the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting that killed 11 people; Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who murdered nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, along with his late brother, helped keep alive the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured hundreds.
FILE – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted and sentenced to death for carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260 on April 15, 2013, has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is shown in this photo released on May 19th. 2013. Tsarnaev's lawyers urged the Federal Court of Appeals on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, to reverse Mr. Tsarnaev. The 29-year-old's death sentence on claims of jury misconduct came just months after his death penalty was reinstated by the nation's highest court. ((FBI via AP, File))
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Biden is the first president to openly oppose the death penalty, declaring on his 2020 campaign website that he would “work to pass legislation to abolish the death penalty at the federal level and encourage states to follow the federal government's example.” did.
The men, resentful of life sentences without the possibility of parole, have been convicted of various acts of murder against one or more people. The 37 victims include law enforcement officers, children and other prisoners.
The same was true for a small number of death row inmates. is set to run along with their co-defendants.
