Joe Biden spares 37 of the 40 death row inmates from execution

| December 23, 2024

Joe Biden decided to commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 federal death row inmates. Instead of being executed, they’re facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. Biden implemented a moratorium against federal executions in 2021, and wanted to make sure that these 37 continued to be spared the death penalty. Law enforcement officers, children, and other inmates are among the victims of these 37 inmates.

From Fox News:

The men being resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole are convicted of various murderous acts against one person or multiple. Among the victims of the 37 men are law enforcement officers, children and other inmates.

A handful of the men on death row were also set to be executed with their co-defendants.

Biden, who only supports the death penalty at the federal level for “terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder,” said this move will prevent President-elect Donald Trump’s administration from “carrying out the execution sentences that would not be handed down under current policy and practice,” according to the White House statement.

The president declared a moratorium on federal executions after taking office in 2021.

The convicted murderers who will now escape execution include: Marcivicci Barnette, who killed a man in a carjacking and his ex-girlfriend; co-defendants Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks, who kidnapped and killed a woman after escaping prison; Anthony Battle, who killed a prison guard; Jason Brown, who stabbed a postal worker to death; Thomas Hager, who committed a drug-related killing; David Runyon, who participated in the murder-for-hire plot of a Naval officer; Thomas Sanders, who kidnapped and killed a 12-year-old girl; Rejon Taylor, who carjacked, kidnapped and killed a restaurant owner; and Alejandro Umana, who killed two brothers inside a restaurant.

Two men were on death row for the murders of witnesses: police officer Len Davis, who ordered the murder of a witness who was part of an investigation into a misconduct complaint against him, and Ronald Mikos, who killed a federal grand jury witness in a Medicare fraud investigation.

Ex-Marine Jorge Torrez was set to be executed for killing another servicemember.

The list also includes men who committed deadly bank robberies, such as co-defendants Billie Allen and Norris Holder, who killed a bank guard during their crime; Brandon Council, who killed two bank employees; and Daryl Lawrence, who killed a special-duty police officer during an attempted bank robbery.

Additional Reading:

Pritchett, E. (2024, December 23). Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row inmates in final month of presidency. Fox News. Link.

Category: Democrats, Government Incompetence, Joe BIden, Society

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Blaster

Yet January 6th people are still locked up. Don’t get me wrong, if they walked through the capitol and/or destroyed property, they are dumb asses and be punished. However, it should be proportionate. Some people were just in DC and didn’t do anything. I saw the story of a guy getting investigated and questioned by the FBI for being in DC on JAN 6, but he was at a wedding and not even at the capitol. SMH!!

jeff LPH 3 63-66

Bad time for a tourist to be in dc and possibly be interegated
by the doj’s FBI Shutzstafle storm troopers. I thought my former co-workers brother shot all the Waffen SS guards in the WW2. concentration camp.

SFC D

He keeps making me say it.

Fuck Joe Biden.

Fyrfighter

Just taking care of rhe main Democrat constituency, criminals… Fuck him and everyone advising him. He jistbtold.cops nationwide that their lives don’t matter..

rgr769

Well, he does head up a crime family. So, he has empathy for other criminals.

Odie

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E. Conboy

Is kkk a crime org? Asking for a friend.

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Fyrfighter

Depends on whether you’re talking about it in association with prominent democrat members of the org (Robert Byrd, etc) or not.

STSC(SW/SS)

That’s OK, you’re in good company.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

SFC D
Right beside ya.
FJB
LGB
FKH

Add WJC & HRC

E. Conboy

Send these prisoners to joes home, let him keep them!

KoB

We like to think that our country will be restored soon but… I’ll believe that Mr. Trump will be sworn in when I see Mr. Trump sworn in. And then I’ll believe that the country will be restored when I see the despots do the perp walk, becoming tried, convicted, and punished for their crimes. All of this talk over the years that Capital Punishment is not a deterrent to crime…welp…it deters that person from doing anymore crime. I personally believe that if public hangings became a thing and as John Tunstall stated “I saw a man hanged once…it was ghastly…” maybe these criminals would think twice. When there is NO doubt that the criminal is guilty, the punishment should be swift and sure. Gotta wonder who is telling ol’ joe who to pardon…that senile POS can’t decide if he wants pudding…or ice cream for dessert.

Deckie

Bring all the prisoners out into a courtyard to witness an execution as well, regardless of their sentences — like in Papillon.

David

It matters not whether the death penalty is a deterrent to crime – it is society’s ultimate protection from those who commit such heinous that the ultimate protection must be invoked. If other aspiring criminals are undeterred, no problem – the same can happen to them.

Fyrfighter

As KoB said, it damn sure deters the hell out of ONE criminal at least…

Sapper3307

Waiting for the full list.

R-55
AW1Ed

The military condemned were not on Joe’s pardon list, at least the one I saw. Those four are:

Ronald Gray 

Hasan Akbar

Timothy Hennis

Nidal Hasan

Fyrfighter

The only reason I’m OK with Hasan still stealing oxygen is that reports I’ve heard say he’s in significant pain 24/7.. I’m OK with that continuing..

SFC D

I’m not anti-death penalty, far from it. But, like you, there are some people I’d just rather get the experience of a long, miserable prison term.

Anonymous

Hoped he hadn’t commuted them, especially fatboy Hasan. That would’ve blown chunks if he had.

rgr769

Both Hassan and Akbar are traitors and should have experienced the hemp neck tie and taught to pull rope.

Fyrfighter

a short drop with piano wire would be better for those two.

David

I believe that is referred to as ‘dancing the Danny Deaver’

SgtM

Old Catholic Joe feels like saving murderers and worse but when it comes to unborn babies, well lets just say he is not going to heaven. Him and Pelosi will soon have a judgement done to them by a higher power they pretend to worship.

STSC(SW/SS)

They will suffer together and will be looking each others face for eternity.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

THAT is punishment right there!

HT3

Yikes…
Looking at Nan-nans sour puss for eternity is something I’d only wish on total POS’s like Joe Biden.

Green Thumb

Some real good dudes here.

Swapping clowns for bad dudes and dishonorable Marines, increasing taxpayer expenses by commuting death row sentences, etc.

What’s next?

Deckie

I highly doubt it’s FJB calling the shots on these (duh) but it’s amazing they are willing to release, in some cases, the absolute worst people in society back among the innocent masses solely as a huge “FUCK YOU” to We, the People.

Guy could pardon and release Timothy McVeigh, if he were still alive and it were possible — and the lefties/Dems would still consider that less evil than Trump pardoning the J6ers.

2025-29 better be the start of a Golden Age or we’re truly fucked.

Fyrfighter

And what a freaking Christmas present for the victims families…. not that the scum in the Whitehouse gives a shit..

SFC D

Now, theoretically, if Joe was to pardon Mc Veigh and release him in downtown Oklahoma City, on a date and time previously announced… it just might get a little western…

Green Thumb

Agreed.

I doubt he even knows who has be commuted.

Odie

Radar just came in and had him sign and initial a bunch of stuff. When he asked what he was signing and initialing, he was just told he was verifying that what he just signed and initialed was proof of his signature and initials.

Fyrfighter

Even that would be a bit much for the dementia patient.. but yeah, he has no damn clue what he’s doing. he’s a meat puppet and nothing more.

E. Conboy

We all know who ran 4077!

E. Conboy

Uuuuh, get him another ice cream cone, Mommy.

Cummins

IF the death-row criminals ACTUALLY committed those crimes, then they should be executed with out a doubt. But, some of the crimes THEY thought were committed by person A were committed by person B, they executed the wrong person. So, be sure before……….

Roh-Dog

Turds’r gonna turd.

Until that giant piece of shit Hasan {spits} pays for what he did at Fort Hood by way of hanging from the neck until dead, then fed to hogs, Xoe Xiden can talk about ‘justice’ all the fuck he wants but his words are hollower than fuck.

turd-polish
SFC D

Can we skip the hanging and just toss him to the hogs?

Prior Service (Ret)

I’m running on a platform where we stop the death penalty but replace it with a period of extreme pain inflicted monthly. Particularly for any criminal activity involving children or women.

Each month, we throw the prison doors open to anybody who is related to the victims. We provide them a clean and sterilized implement with which they can visit pain on the perpetrator. The rest of the month is spent healing them up and readying them for the next visit. We can tie it to the lunar cycle so they can look out the window at night and tell it’s getting closer.

It’s like a conjugal visit but the opposite. But they’re still getting f}^*}d up.

A Proud Infidel®™

I’m cool with that as long as said equipment includes things like needle nose pliers and icepicks!

Roh-Dog

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KoB

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

Just in… Democrats plan to resist Trump in 2025– it’s not “insurrection” when they do it:
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Tallywhagger

Is there not even one attorney general in the entire United States that will object to this miscarriage of justice?

Joe Biden is not mentally capable of finding his way off the stage or even walking on a beach without assistance.

Amateur Historian

January 20th is too slow. We need Biden out NOW!!!

George

I favor life in prison over execution as long as they are in solitary confinement with only a bed of nails.

E. Conboy

Don’t leave out the cockroaches and rats!

Forest Bondurant

Joe Biden is an insufferable demented cocksucker.