Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., joined “The Faulkner Focus” on Monday to respond to the president Joe Biden The decision to commute the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners, including mass murderers and child killers, a move that comes just two weeks after he went through the “largest single-day clemency grant” in American history. Schmidt said the decision reinforces Biden's legacy as “one of the worst presidents” in American history.
Biden Considers Commuting Sentences of Inmates on Federal Death Row: Report
Eric Schmidt: 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 loved ones lost, and now have to deal with this kind of indignity of injury.
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 19: US President Joe Biden listens to a question shouted down by 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 with Joe Biden, in his efforts to “resist Trump,” we’ve seen some of that. For the incoming administration, whether it is hiding workers or objects at the border, this is out of the ordinary. I think it cements his place as one of the worst presidents in American history, certainly this side of Woodrow Wilson. … It's important, as a former prosecutor, I think it's important to talk about the victims here. Lexis Roberts went on a camping trip with her mother and Thomas Sanders. Thomas Sanders, on the way back, took out her mother and executed her in cold blood in front of Lexis, then cut Lexis Roberts' throat and left her to die in the woods. This is the person whose sentence Joe Biden decided, on Christmas Eve, to commute his sentence. This is nuts. This is totally nuts. So the anger is real, and it's justified. And once again, Joe Biden, on his way out, is once again cementing his place as one of our worst presidents.
President Biden is Switch sentences The White House announced on Monday that Trump executed the “largest one-day clemency grant” in American history, a move that comes less than two weeks after he received the “largest one-day clemency grant” in American history.
Of the 40 inmates on federal death row, according to DeathPenaltyInfo.org, Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 men on death row, reclassifying their sentences to life without parole.
The three inmates not included are: Robert Bowers, responsible for the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, which left 11 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 Boston Marathon bombing attack on April 15, 2013, which killed three people and injured more than 260 others, is pictured in this photo released by the FBI on April 19, 2013. Tsarnaev's lawyer urged the appeals court The Federal Reserve on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, decided to cancel the ruling. A 29-year-old has been sentenced to death over juror misconduct just months after the death penalty was revived by the country's highest court. ((FBI via AP, file))
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Biden is the first president to publicly oppose the death penalty, and his 2020 campaign website announced that he “will work to legislate to repeal the death penalty at the federal level and incentivize states to follow the federal government's lead.”
Men sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole are guilty of various acts of murder against one or several people. The 37 men's victims included law enforcement officers, children and other prisoners.
A handful of men were on death row as well scheduled to be implemented With the other defendants.
