'Explain It To Our Faces': Victims' Families React To Biden's Death Row Clemency

Posted • December 24, 2024: The Biden Administration commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates on Monday. The last-minute move has been widely criticized, and justifiably so. The clemency has devastated some family members of the victims. Families that the Biden Administration didn't bother to consult or even notify that the monsters that raped and murdered their loved ones would be shown mercy. Does anyone believe Joe Biden had the decency to first warn the victims' families that clemency was coming for killers? Of course not. Biden is both corrupt and fundamentally indecent. Some of those family members are speaking out. Victim’s shattered kin wants Biden to ‘explain to our faces’ stunning death-row Christmas clemency. Alex Snell, the brother of Amanda Snell, spoke to the New York Post about the commuted sentence of Jorge Avila-Torrez, who murdered his sister in 2009.

Snell called Biden's act of clemency for the man who killed his sister 'Despicable.' It's highly unlikely that anyone from the Biden Administration will reach out to the victim's families. Looking family members in the eye when you are about to show mercy to their loved one's murderers would take courage, and courage is something Biden is gravely lacking. Brandon Council was sentenced to death for the murders of Donna Major and Katie Skeen during a 2017 bank robbery. Donna's family spoke to Fox News about Council's commutation. Donna's daughter, Heather Turner, requested a face-to-face meeting with the Pardon Attorney in May. Those requests were denied. This administration was not tone-deaf; they just didn't care. The Biden administration released a statement attempting to spin their spineless decision to commute the death sentences of some of our nation's worst offenders as a moral one. (…)

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New York Post: Victim’s shattered kin wants Biden to ‘explain to our faces’ stunning death-row Christmas clemency
https://nypost.com/2024/12/23/us-news/victims-shattered-kin-wants-biden-to-explain-to-our-faces-stunning-death-row-christmas-clemency/