'...anyone who supports commuting their sentences will and should be painted as soft on crime in campaign ads.'
“…anyone who supports commuting their sentences will and should be painted as soft on crime in campaign ads.”he was granting clemency to 1,500 convicted criminals who due to the pandemic had served out their sentences at home, soft-on-crime leftists including woke Congressman Jamaal Bowman were calling on him to “pardon” people who were on death row.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who oversees federal prisons, has recommended that Biden commute all but a handful of the sentences, the people familiar with the matter said, excepting a few terrorism and hate-crimes cases. The Justice Department had no immediate comment. “The death penalty does not help victim family members. It doesn’t give us any sense of justice for the person to be executed,” Rev. Sharon Risher, an anti-death penalty activist, told theincludes Kaboni Savage, who was convicted of committing or ordering the deaths of 12 people including four children as a Philadelphia drug dealer, and Thomas Sanders, who in 2010 kidnapped and then shot 12-year-Lexis Roberts four times and cut her throat — after also murdering her mother.
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