Biden faces senator’s anger for commuting death sentences for murderers: “That’s completely crazy!”

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., joined “The Faulkner Focus” on Monday to respond to President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates, including mass murderers and child murderers, a move that took less than two Weeks after his decision, he received the “largest one-day clemency” in American history. Schmitt said the decision cements Biden’s legacy as “one of the worst presidents” in American history.

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ERIC SCHMITT: It’s two days before Christmas. I can only imagine the grief and shock these families are experiencing as they prepare for the holidays, remember the loved ones they lost, and now have to deal with this kind of insult.

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 19: U.S. President Joe Biden listens to a question called from the press as he arrives at the White House on December 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Biden spent the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

And I think Joe Biden has seen some of that in his effort to become “Trump-proof.” For the next administration, whether it’s hiding workers or things at the border, this is simply overkill. And I think he cements his status as one of the worst presidents in American history, certainly alongside Woodrow Wilson. … It’s important, as a former prosecutor myself, I think it’s important to talk about the victims here. Lexis Roberts went on a camping trip with her mother and Thomas Sanders. On the way back, Thomas Sanders took her mother and executed her in cold blood in front of Lexis, then he slit Lexis Roberts’ throat and left her to die in the forest. This is someone for whom Joe Biden decided to commute his sentence on the eve of Christmas. That’s crazy. This is totally crazy. So the outrage is real and justified. And again, on his way out, Joe Biden is once again cementing his status as one of our worst presidents.

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President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly all inmates on federal death row, a move that comes less than two weeks after the “largest one-day grant of clemency” in American history, the White House announced Monday.

According to DeathPenaltyInfo.org, of the 40 inmates on federal death row, Biden is commuting 37 men sentenced to death, downgrading their sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The three inmates not included are: Robert Bowers, who is responsible for the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 that left 11 people dead; Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who worked with his now-deceased brother to perpetuate the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds.

FILE – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted and sentenced to death for carrying out the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured more than 260, is pictured in this photo taken April 19, 2013 Federal Bureau of Investigation was released. 2013. Tsarnaev’s lawyer on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, asked a federal appeals court to throw out the death penalty. Just months after the nation’s highest court revived his death penalty, a 29-year-old was sentenced to death for juror misconduct. ((FBI via AP, file))

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Biden is the first president to openly oppose the death penalty, and on his 2020 campaign website he stated that he would “work to pass legislation abolishing the death penalty at the federal level and create incentives for states to follow the federal government’s lead.” consequences”.

The men, who were again sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, are convicted of various murders against one or more people. The 37 men’s victims include police officers, children and other inmates.

So were a handful of the men on death row set for execution with their co-defendants.