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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden 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.
biophile
(1,567 posts)maxsolomon
(39,144 posts)He was not Pardoned.
MichMan
(17,403 posts)The OP said "These criminals will never see the light of day". Not true.
Pototan
(3,212 posts)Because those were the only Biden commutations that the MAGAT cult members refer to.
and none of those will see the light of day.
bottomofthehill
(9,424 posts)MichMan
(17,403 posts)Adrian Peeler will in fact "see the light of day" after murdering an 8 year old witness and his mother.
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 Clarkes boyfriend, a rival Bridgeport drug dealer Rudolf Snead.
B.J. told police he and another boy were sitting in Sneads 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)Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, judge Merchan, or Jack Smith.
An oversight?... Inquiring minds...
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