President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly every prisoner on the federal government's death row, a sweeping decision designed to hinder President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to rapidly resume executions. Biden will commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 men condemned to death, the second mass clemency in the weeks following the pardon he issued to his son, Hunter Biden. The president called the death row commutations, which will instead sentence them to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole, consistent with his administration’s moratorium on executions.
冷知识。 美国曾经一度禁止死刑，执行了十年，天也没塌下来 death penalty was banned in the United States for 10 years, from 1968 to 1976, due to a Supreme Court ruling that found it unconstitutional。
pinochao 发表于 2024-12-23 09:17 President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly every prisoner on the federal government's death row, a sweeping decision designed to hinder President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to rapidly resume executions. Biden will commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 men condemned to death, the second mass clemency in the weeks following the pardon he issued to his son, Hunter Biden. The president called the death row commutations, which will instead sentence them to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole, consistent with his administration’s moratorium on executions.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-federal-prosecutor-death-row-095102641.html A former federal prosecutor in the case that sent a man to death row says it is difficult to see a "remorseless murderer" be relieved of his sentence following President Biden's decision on Monday to commute nearly all federal inmates facing execution. Brandon Council, of North Carolina, was sentenced to death by a federal jury on Oct. 3, 2019, after he was found guilty of killing two women who worked at a South Carolina bank during a robbery in 2017. Council was one of the 37 convicted murderers who will now spend life in prison without parole after Biden reclassified their death sentences. Derek Shoemake, former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of South Carolina and one of the federal prosecutors in the case against Council, told Fox News Digital it was "one of the greatest professional honors" of his life to pursue justice for victims Donna Major, 59, and Kathryn Skeen, 36, and his heart aches for their families following Biden's decision. "Donna and Katie were amazing women, wonderful mothers, and beacons of light in their community. Today my thoughts and prayers are with their families, and my heart aches for them as they process this news," Shoemake said in a statement. Read On The Fox News App He also said his thoughts and prayers are with the team who "worked for more than a year" getting justice for Major and Skeen, "ensuring a remorseless murderer received a sentence that spoke to the horrific nature of his senseless crimes." After making it inside, Council shot Major, who was the bank teller, multiple times with a revolver, the USAO-SC said at the time. He then ran into Skeen's office, where she worked as the bank's manager, and shot her multiple times while she hid under her desk. Before fleeing the bank, he stole keys to both victims' cars, their bank cards and more than $15,000 in cash. He took one of the vehicles to a motel he was staying at, packed his luggage and drove off. Fbi Agent Says Bank Robbery Suspect Brandon Council Confessed He Would Kill "It is difficult to see a sentence wiped away from 400 miles away after it was legally imposed by a jury of men and women from South Carolina who spent weeks listening to evidence, deliberating, and carefully deciding the appropriate punishment," Shoemake said. He also said it hurts that the victims' families "will celebrate yet another Christmas without their loved ones," while Council is among the 37 federally convicted murderers "celebrating a political victory." Shoemake said his focus is not on the political debate surrounding Biden's commutations, but on the "legacy of love, family, and faith" that Major and Skeen embodied. "I pray for their families, as I so often do, and I pray for all the victims’ families impacted today," he said. In a White House statement announcing the commutations on Monday, Biden said he condemns the murderers and their "despicable acts," and he grieves for the victims and families who have suffered "unimaginable and irreparable loss," but he "cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted." Only three inmates remain on federal death row as Biden's presidency nears its end. They are Tree of Life Synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
所谓"我死后，哪管洪水滔天"
他没有后代么
佩股神回来了吗？
豁免其他人可能是因为先豁免了自己的儿子，要做做样子
Can’t agree more!!!
不是，唯三的没豁免的就是马拉松爆炸，犹太教堂屠杀和一个也是仇恨屠杀的。其他37个都被豁免了 看了一个被豁免的，毒贩子，把一个线人全家4口烧死了，还杀了好像6个人包括一个指证他的证人。 为毛要豁免这些人？那些被他们杀了的人怎么心安？拜登怎么能心安？
欧美国家都这尿性，反对死刑。还拿死刑来攻击中国。其实他们当年起家就是靠的种族屠杀和殖民，现在假模假样的讲究人权，呵呵
除了赦免尼克松那次以外，以前的总统还是要一些脸面或者说顾身后的名声，赦免的基本上都是很有争议的罪犯，或者赦免所犯的罪行，但是得刑满释放那种。 毕竟那些总统下台以后还要活N多年呢！
这是让民主党再也没有翻身的一天？这老头绝对是民主党的黑子。
那要看他党内的人怎么评价。 死刑变无期，民主党的理念真就是人道主义？这种会推动私刑吧？人道主义最后变成丛林法则？！大家开始练枪吧！
跟古代新皇登基大赦天下一样了，以前也有类似赦免么？
这个白等简直是魔头，一个人推翻/改变这么多的审判结果。
他该早点下地狱。 他是近代最最差的总统，只懂得下跪。
楼上为还为拜登辩护，还有没有人性
这是显示他对所有的重罪犯（包括他儿子）都一视同仁吗？
我就看看检查官还有没有脸去诉Luigi死刑。如果Luigi被判死刑，那什么也别说了，就上街吧。
Luigi简直是块试金石。光看看现在出来说话的“名人”对他什么态度，就知道一个个的谁是伪君子谁是真小人了
这是指trump作为罪犯可以当选总统吗？ 所以是已经认定Luigi有罪了？还是trump不该有罪？ 还是就是单纯的比烂？
你这是不懂美国法律么？“Innocent until proven guilty”
我就想知道是不是trump想碰瓷Luigi，要是那个原帖没trump什么事是我想多了。所以和拜登有啥关系
A former federal prosecutor in the case that sent a man to death row says it is difficult to see a "remorseless murderer" be relieved of his sentence following President Biden's decision on Monday to commute nearly all federal inmates facing execution. Brandon Council, of North Carolina, was sentenced to death by a federal jury on Oct. 3, 2019, after he was found guilty of killing two women who worked at a South Carolina bank during a robbery in 2017. Council was one of the 37 convicted murderers who will now spend life in prison without parole after Biden reclassified their death sentences. Derek Shoemake, former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of South Carolina and one of the federal prosecutors in the case against Council, told Fox News Digital it was "one of the greatest professional honors" of his life to pursue justice for victims Donna Major, 59, and Kathryn Skeen, 36, and his heart aches for their families following Biden's decision.
"Donna and Katie were amazing women, wonderful mothers, and beacons of light in their community. Today my thoughts and prayers are with their families, and my heart aches for them as they process this news," Shoemake said in a statement. Read On The Fox News App He also said his thoughts and prayers are with the team who "worked for more than a year" getting justice for Major and Skeen, "ensuring a remorseless murderer received a sentence that spoke to the horrific nature of his senseless crimes." After making it inside, Council shot Major, who was the bank teller, multiple times with a revolver, the USAO-SC said at the time. He then ran into Skeen's office, where she worked as the bank's manager, and shot her multiple times while she hid under her desk. Before fleeing the bank, he stole keys to both victims' cars, their bank cards and more than $15,000 in cash. He took one of the vehicles to a motel he was staying at, packed his luggage and drove off. Fbi Agent Says Bank Robbery Suspect Brandon Council Confessed He Would Kill
"It is difficult to see a sentence wiped away from 400 miles away after it was legally imposed by a jury of men and women from South Carolina who spent weeks listening to evidence, deliberating, and carefully deciding the appropriate punishment," Shoemake said. He also said it hurts that the victims' families "will celebrate yet another Christmas without their loved ones," while Council is among the 37 federally convicted murderers "celebrating a political victory."
Shoemake said his focus is not on the political debate surrounding Biden's commutations, but on the "legacy of love, family, and faith" that Major and Skeen embodied. "I pray for their families, as I so often do, and I pray for all the victims’ families impacted today," he said. In a White House statement announcing the commutations on Monday, Biden said he condemns the murderers and their "despicable acts," and he grieves for the victims and families who have suffered "unimaginable and irreparable loss," but he "cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted." Only three inmates remain on federal death row as Biden's presidency nears its end. They are Tree of Life Synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.