Biden doesn’t care about the safety of Americans. He only cares about pushing his radical agenda.
And now Joe Biden handed an early Christmas present to mass murderers.
President Biden is set to commute the sentences of nearly all 40 murderers on federal death row, a bold and controversial move aimed at blocking President-elect Donald Trump from resuming federal executions.
Under Biden’s directive, 37 convicted killers will have their sentences reduced to life imprisonment without parole, a decision immune to judicial review or reversal by future administrations.
This sweeping clemency applies to a list of notorious criminals, including Kaboni Savage, who orchestrated the murders of 12 people—including four children—to expand his drug empire, and Thomas Sanders, who brutally murdered a 12-year-old girl after killing her mother.
Other beneficiaries include Iouri Mikhel, responsible for the murder of five immigrants during ransom kidnappings, and Jorge Avila-Torrez, a serial rapist who killed two young girls and later murdered a Naval officer.
The exceptions to Biden’s commutations are three high-profile killers: Robert Bowers, who massacred 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue; Dylann Roof, who murdered nine Black parishioners in Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church; and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The White House clarified that these cases, marked by “terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder,” were excluded from clemency.
Biden defended his decision as a principled stand against capital punishment. “Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden said in a statement.
“But guided by conscience and my experience … I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.”
The move is a striking departure from the Democratic Party’s 2024 platform, which did not call for the abolition of the federal death penalty, reversing its 2020 and 2016 stances.
It also follows Biden’s contentious blanket pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, just weeks ago.
Attorney General Merrick Garland recommended clemency for all but three federal death row inmates, according to sources.
Biden’s decision aligns with pressure from a diverse coalition of prosecutors, judges, religious leaders, and even victims’ families, who called the death penalty “barbaric, racist, immoral, and outdated.”
Their pleas intensified as Trump signaled plans to reinstate executions upon taking office.
During Trump’s first term, 13 federal inmates were executed in six months, ending a 17-year hiatus in federal executions. Trump’s administration had controversially approved the use of pentobarbital for lethal injections, despite opposition claiming it caused unnecessary suffering.
Republicans sharply criticized Biden’s commutations, accusing him of prioritizing progressive politics over justice for victims’ families.
“It would mean that progressive politics is more important to the president than the lives taken by these murderers,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared.
The debate over capital punishment has long divided Americans, but Biden’s decision has elevated the stakes.
As Trump prepares to take office with a promise to expand executions, Biden’s clemency move cements his legacy in the battle over the federal death penalty—whether viewed as a moral imperative or a concession to his progressive base.
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