Biden Commutes the Sentences of Almost All Federal Convicts on Death Row

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President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, including child killers and mass murderers, two days before Christmas. The clemency move, part of Biden's opposition to the death penalty, reduces their sentences to life in prison without parole.

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Among those spared execution are Thomas Sanders, who brutally killed a 12-year-old girl and her mother, and Iouri Mikhel, responsible for the ransom killings of five immigrants.

Three high-profile inmates, including Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, did not receive clemency.

Biden defended the decision as necessary to ensure justice but provided no specifics on why these cases warranted commutations.

Diving Deeper:

President Joe Biden ignited a firestorm of controversy on Monday by commuting the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates. The move spares the lives of individuals convicted of some of the most heinous crimes, including the murder of children, mass killings, and acts of extreme violence while in custody. Biden cited his long-standing opposition to the death penalty as justification, framing the decision as an effort to establish a "fair and effective justice system."

"Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims... and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss," Biden said in a statement. He added that he could not, in good conscience, allow a future administration to resume executions.

The list of spared inmates includes Thomas Sanders, who killed a mother and her 12-year-old daughter, and Anthony Battle, who murdered a prison guard with a hammer while already serving a life sentence for raping and killing his wife. Others, like drug kingpins Kaboni Savage and James Roane, Jr., were responsible for the deaths of multiple victims, including children, in violent drug-related crimes.

However, Biden excluded three infamous individuals: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber; Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine worshippers at a Charleston church.

So either he actually does believe in the death penalty, or he's just a weak cowardly leftist virtue-signaler who's too afraid of the consequences for commuting the sentences of these people.

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The president's decision has reignited debates over the death penalty and his broader approach to criminal justice. Some see his actions as aligning with progressive goals, while others view them as an affront to justice and accountability. With just weeks left in his presidency, Biden's clemency spree cements his legacy as a divisive figure in the criminal justice reform debate.

I'll say.

Some few of you might actually be almost 29 years old and may forget the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

He was the worst. Carter's humiliating failure of the presidency set up three consecutive conservative presidential terms. Well, two Reagan terms and one liberalish Bush term. But the country was ready to vote for a conservative three times.

For fifteen years the humiliation and misery of the Carter years was a powerful memory that animated voters to vote Republican.

Joe Biden is now a worse president than Carter, and his corruption, fecklessness, failure and lying will set up at least two more Republican presidential terms.

posted by Ace at 12:16 PM

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