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Pototan

(3,212 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:33 PM Jan 2025

Biden Did Not Pardon Murderers

I've been watching MAGA cult elected officials lying in interviews on cable networks about President Biden pardoning murders. These lies are left unrefuted by the interviewers, even on CNN. What Joe Biden did was commute death sentences to life in prison. These criminals will never see the light of day. These were not pardons. Many people, and almost every allied country in the world, does not permit the death penalty for any crimes. Joe Biden has a problem with the death penalty, but his commutation of the death row sentences to life in prison without parole, does not put the public in jeopardy. It is not the equivalent of Trump putting very dangerous criminals back on the street with no restrictions, including purchasing and carrying weapons.

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MichMan

(17,403 posts)
5. Released from custody and given home confinement
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:19 PM
Jan 2025

The OP said "These criminals will never see the light of day". Not true.

Pototan

(3,212 posts)
7. I was referring only to those with death sentances
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 02:15 AM
Jan 2025

Because those were the only Biden commutations that the MAGAT cult members refer to.

and none of those will see the light of day.

MichMan

(17,403 posts)
4. People convicted of murder were in fact released from custody after their sentences were commuted by President Biden
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:03 PM
Jan 2025

Adrian Peeler will in fact "see the light of day" after murdering an 8 year old witness and his mother.

Adrian Peeler, a notorious Connecticut murderer and drug dealer, was among the nearly 2,500 convicted criminals whose prison sentences were commuted last week by former President Joseph P. Biden.

He was convicted of shooting to death 8-year old Leroy “B.J.” Brown and his mother Karen Clarke in January 1999 on orders from his older brother Russell Peeler, his partner in their Bridgeport drug gang. Prosecutors said the brothers wanted to eliminate B.J. as a witness against Russell, who was about to be tried for killing Clarke’s boyfriend, a rival Bridgeport drug dealer Rudolf Snead.

B.J. told police he and another boy were sitting in Snead’s car and he saw Russell Peeler shoot and wound Snead in a 1997 drive-by attack. Snead survived but was slain later.

Adrian Peeler was eventually sentenced to a total of 60 years in prison for his crimes, 25 years on state charges for conspiring to murder Clarke and her son and 35 on federal drug trafficking charges.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/adrian-peeler-convicted-of-killing-mother-and-son-witnesses-to-ct-murder-gets-biden-commutation/ar-AA1xCyki?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Earl_from_PA

(308 posts)
6. Biden did not pardon
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:22 PM
Jan 2025

Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, judge Merchan, or Jack Smith.
An oversight?... Inquiring minds...

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