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Biden commutes all but 3 federal death sentences
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Anonymous
Knowing Trump is coming in, you wouldn’t have done the same? Trump is probably the most vindictive president ever. |
Anonymous
100% |
Anonymous
And the main witness in that case admitted he made up the Burisma bribe story. |
Anonymous
Biden was the one who insisted he wouldn’t pardon his son, and he knew when he said it that Trump was running. He is a liar and hypocrite. |
Anonymous
As has been said repeatedly, we have no guarantee the prisoners will be in jail for life. At one point the prisoners were guaranteed to be executed eventually but Biden put an end to that. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Why is a thread about Biden commuting the sentences of child killers suddenly becoming a thread about Trump? Keep on topic. |
Anonymous
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Waiting to see more Democrat support for taking the other 3 on death row and commuting their sentences, especially Tsarnaev the Boston Marathon killer.
His lawyer mustve been working through the holidays knowing this is best chance with less than a month to get some more Democrats on board. Ayanna Presley is a Massachusetts representative and she praised Biden for commuting the 37 death sentences, so he knows he can get her to be very vocal and the domino effect should get started and lead right to the people around Biden and they'll get him to sign off on it. |
Anonymous
he probably didn’t think trump would win. Still shocking. Probably anyone but trump would pardon their own kids. And didn’t you hear? a witness lied about the Biden’s and has pleaded guilty. |
Anonymous
what would happen for them to get out? |
Anonymous
| What happened to the separation of powers? Why does any president get to issue pardons or commute sentences? |
Anonymous
So cute! It's in the constitution. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013316/ |
Anonymous
I understand it's in the constitution but I don't understand the logic of the president overriding the judicial system. I suppose I do in the sense I could imagine a handful of politically motivated cases but not the sorts of cases for which they are currently being issued. |
Anonymous
You are WRONG. "If the defendant is convicted of a capital offense, the guilt-determination phase of the trial is followed by a special hearing to determine whether a sentence of death is justified. The hearing is normally held before a jury of 12 members. At the hearing, the prosecutor presents evidence in support of the aggravating factors for which notice has previously been provided, and the defense is free to present evidence concerning any mitigating factors. The government must prove the existence of aggravating factors beyond a reasonable doubt, and the jury must unanimously agree that such a factor or factors have been established. The defendant need only establish the existence of mitigating factors by a preponderance of the evidence, and each juror is free to conclude that such factors have been established, regardless of whether other members of the jury agree. To recommend a sentence of death, the jury must determine that the defendant had the requisite culpability with respect to the victim's death, and must unanimously agree that the aggravating factor or factors it has found sufficiently outweigh any mitigating factors to justify a capital sentence. If the jury does recommend a capital sentence, the court is required to sentence the defendant accordingly. If the jury does not unanimously agree that the death penalty should be imposed, the defendant is given a lesser (non-capital) sentence. 18 U.S.C. 3593-94." https://www.justice.gov/archive/dag/pubdoc/deathpenaltystudy.htm#:~:text=If%20the%20jury%20does%20recommend,(non%2Dcapital)%20sentence. |
Anonymous
Nothing remotely on the scale of Trump’s lies and hypocrisy - |