{"id":2382957,"date":"2024-12-23T08:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-leaves-three-men-on-death-row-after-saying-country-must-stop-executions-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:43:51","slug":"biden-leaves-three-men-on-death-row-after-saying-country-must-stop-executions-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-leaves-three-men-on-death-row-after-saying-country-must-stop-executions-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden leaves three men on death row after saying country must \u2018stop\u2019 executions &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-leaves-three-men-on-death-row-after-saying-country-must-stop-executions-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2382957&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President \u2064Joe \u200bBiden has decided to \u200dleave three inmates on federal death row while\u2063 advocating for a stop to all executions in the country. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-biden-aware-hes-no-longer-running-for-president-4\/\" title=\"Is Biden aware he&#039;s no longer running for president?\">recent announcement made<\/a> just weeks before leaving office, he commuted\u2064 the \u200csentences of 37 out of 40 inmates on federal \u200cdeath row.\u2064 The three individuals remaining are Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black parishioners\u200d in Charleston in 2015, and \u200cRobert Bowers, whose specific crime is not\u2063 detailed in the provided text. Biden&#8217;s decision highlights a controversial aspect of his approach\u2063 to capital punishment, reflecting a complex balance between his stated \u2062goals and the realities of individual \u200bcases.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden leaves three men on death row after saying country must &lsquo;stop&rsquo; executions<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1918800\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> left three inmates on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3251754\/biden-pressure-grant-death-row-inmates-clemency-trump-takes-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"federal death row\">federal death row<\/a> despite saying that the country must cease all executions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>On Monday, Biden announced the commutation of 37 out of 40 inmates on federal death row, with less than a month left in office. The three left on death row were those responsible for massacres: Dylann Roof, 30, murdered nine black parishioners in Charleston in 2015; Robert Bowers, 52, murdered 11 Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 31, one of the brothers behind the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured hundreds more.<\/p>\n<p>He repeated his stance in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/12\/23\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-federal-death-row-commutations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"statement\">statement<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>In the same statement, he said the commutations are &ldquo;consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">hate-motivated mass murder<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Biden has faced pressure from a number of sources to commute the sentences, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-cancels-chicago-trip-to-focus-on-threatened-infrastructure-bill\/\" title=\"Biden Cancels Chicago Trip To Focus On Threatened Infrastructure Bill\">left-wing factions<\/a> within the Democratic Party to Pope Francis, whom Biden spoke with last week. The president had vowed to abolish the federal death penalty during his 2020 campaign but only issued a moratorium on further executions during his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump took the opposite approach to the death penalty, overseeing the execution of 13 death row inmates during his first term. He has vowed to expand the death penalty for more crimes in his second administration.<\/p>\n<p>The move to commute the sentences is likely to incur the wrath of Trump and allies, who have argued that Democrats&rsquo; approach to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-accused-of-sexually-abusing-children-faces-death-penalty-under-new-florida-law\/\" title=\"Florida&#039;s new law imposes the death penalty on a man accused of sexually abusing children\">death penalty reflects<\/a> a soft-on-crime philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of death row inmates will go unaffected by Biden&rsquo;s commutation, as thousands are on death row in states across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Among those whose sentences were commuted by Biden were Brandon Basham, 43, and&nbsp;Chadrick Fulks, 47, who kidnapped, raped, and murdered two women after escaping prison. Thomas Sanders, 57, murdered a mother in front of her 12-year-old daughter, kidnapped her, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdla\/pr\/jury-imposes-death-sentence-las-vegas-man-kidnap-and-murder-12-year-old-girl-louisiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"brutally murdered\">murdered<\/a> her four days later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Others were convicted of murdering several people &mdash; Kaboni Savage, 49, murdered 12 people in connection with a drug enterprise, including an infant and three other children, after he ordered their apartment to be firebombed. He was later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/kaboni-savage-execution-appeal-death-sentence-philadelphia-justice-department-20200814.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"recorded\">recorded<\/a> mocking their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Two serial killers, Jurijus Kadamovas, 58, and Iouri Mikhel, 59, who kidnapped and murdered five people, also had their sentences commuted. Jorge Torrez, 36, was convicted of kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and murdering an 8-year-old and 9-year-old girl, raping another woman, and murdering a female naval officer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1918800\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1918800\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden commutes 37 death row sentences, leaving three men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2382958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/bidenglasses.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,33010,41272,6018,32076],"class_list":["post-2382957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-criminal-justice","tag-death-row","tag-executions","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/bidenglasses.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382961,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382957\/revisions\/2382961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}