Joe Biden continues his pardon spree. This time it’s 37 prisoners on federal death row who had their sentences commuted to life in prison.

Keep in mind, juries found each of these criminals not only guilty, but that they should face the death penalty for their heinous acts. Yet Joe offers up this reasoning for commuting their sentences.

I’ve dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system.

Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.

Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss.

But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.

Read that again. Especially the last sentence. This was an act of pure POLITICAL SPITE from Joe. Nothing more. 

Oh, he and his minions are trying to claim that he’s always been against the death penalty and that this is just a continuation of how he’s rolled on the death penalty, yet there are some pesky facts standing in Joe’s way. Via Duane at HotAir we find out that Joe ignored federal statutes in commuting these sentences.

The executions that Joe Biden halted were ones that fall under Title 18, Chapter 228 of the U.S. Code. That code reflects amendments to it made by 1994’s Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994. That act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.

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There was one Senator who was the primary author and sponsor of that 1994 Death Penalty Act. Anyone care to hazard a guess at whom that senator was? I’ll give you a clue. It was Joe Biden.

As with the student loan forgiveness and Hunter’s blanket pardon, laws are only suggestions with Joe, not anything to adhere to. I guess we can at least be thankful that these three are still on death row. 

Biden did not commute the sentences of three men who were involved in cases of terrorism or hate-fueled mass murder, including Robert Bowers, convicted for the 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue; Dylann Roof, convicted for the 2015 mass shooting at a Black church in Charleston, S.C.; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon.

But those who just got a super nice Christmas gift from Grandpa Joe? They are NOT nice people at all. The NY Times offers up a nice list, yet leaves out the atrocities of the acts that landed them on death row, as does the White House. 

The girl in this picture was 12-year-old Lexis Roberts.

Steven Sanders killed her mom in front of her, kidnapped her, and then slit her throat.

Joe Biden just commuted his death sentence. pic.twitter.com/Bhl9kLi100

— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 23, 2024

AG has more on X regarding their evil acts, as does the NY Post. 

Christmas also came early for Anthony Battle, who murdered an Atlanta prison guard with a hammer in 1994 while serving a life sentence for raping and murdering his wife, a US Marine, in 1987 at Camp Lejeune, NC.

Jorge Avila-Torrez sexually assaulted and stabbed to death two girls — Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9 — who had been riding their bicycles in their neighborhood in a suburb north of Chicago in 2005.

Four years later, he strangled naval officer Amanda Snell, 20, inside her barrack in Arlington, Va.

Iouri Mikhel, another clemency recipient, was convicted of murdering five Russian and Georgian immi­grants after kidnapping them for ransom, which in some cases was paid before he killed them anyway.

Kaboni Savage, meanwhile, was convicted of committing or ordering the deaths of 12 people including four children as a Philadelphia drug dealer — while James Roane, Jr. participated in the murder of 11 people as a drug dealer in Richmond, Va.

Again, this was done out of pure political spite. Joe and his handlers did this purely to keep President Trump from upholding the law. 

So instead of commuting all 40, he decided to pass judgment that actually SOME death sentences are deserved, in the process deciding that the victims of the 37 others weren’t as important. https://t.co/7Xf8B5o5pi

— Sunny (@sunnyright) December 23, 2024

I guess the media reports were true for once. Joe is going to do his level best to burn it all down before January 20th. 

Feature Photo Credit: Original artwork by Victory Girls Darleen Click