After the White House announced President Joe Biden's decision Reducing sentences Almost all inmates on federal death row, Republicans criticized him for being “soft on crime.”
“Joe Biden is spoiledAnd the corrupt and the imbecile failure. The White House has become a memory care facility with Biden commanding his corrupt sons and Marxist staff. “This is why 37 depraved killers got clemency,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, wrote on X.
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Cotton is the next president of both Senate Republican Conference and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
“Unfortunately, this is not surprising given that the Biden-Harris administration has allowed murderers and rapists to enter through our southern border over the past four years,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minnesota, told Fox News Digital in a statement. Joe Biden's weakness on crime is exactly why voters ousted him and re-elected President Trump on November 5.
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“Violent killers should not have their sentences commuted,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said on X. “We should end soft-crime policies.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Los Angeles, called the move “a slap in the face to the families who have suffered immeasurably at the hands of these animals.”
While Republicans expressed their dismay, some Democrats celebrated Biden's announcement.
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“Today’s decision by the President establishes impeachment with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, ensuring that these individuals never again pose a threat to public safety, but without implicating the countless issues associated with the death penalty. I have long called for the abolition of this punishment. “We applaud the federal death penalty and applaud President Biden for this act of justice and compassion and for his leadership,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said in a statement.
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Rep. Jayapal praised the Biden administration. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“This is a historic day in America,” Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said in her own statement. “We thank President Biden for this extraordinary action to spare 37 people facing the death penalty, which is a discriminatory and fundamental punishment.” “It is an inhumane punishment, and it is a powerful use of executive action to save lives and achieve justice.”
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It had previously encouraged the administration to take such action.
Biden's commutation of the death penalty came after the death sentences of nearly 1,500 people had already begun to be commuted in the largest single-day amnesty law.
