Posted on 01/25/2021 5:02:52 AM PST by massmike
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley is calling for President Biden to commute the sentences of all federal prisoners on death row — a push that could ultimately affect Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Pressley and U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., led 35 of their colleagues — including Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss — in sending a letter to Biden urging him to “immediately commute” the sentences of all 49 prisoners on federal death row and ensure a “fair re-sentencing process.”
Pressley is also pushing a bill to abolish the federal death penalty with Bush and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
“State-sanctioned murder is not justice, and the death penalty, which kills Black and brown people disproportionately, has absolutely no place in our society,” Pressley said in a statement.
Pressley’s push comes as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the fate of Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber.
Last July, U.S. Appeals Court for the 1st Circuit Judge Rogeriee Thompson threw out Tsarnaev’s death sentence, saying the convicted terrorist will have to face another jury to determine whether he’ll ultimately be executed.
Tsarnaev, a student at UMass Dartmouth at the time of the attack, and his older brother, Tamerlan, set off the two bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line in 2013.
The bombing killed Martin Richard, 8; Krystle Campbell, 29; and Lu Lingzi, 23. More than 260 people were injured. MIT police officer Sean Collier, 27, was shot execution-style days later by the Tsarnaevs.
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Biden is making it more difficult for Democratic congresscritters to get elected again. By all means, release all prisoners. Arrest ordinary Americans for mask infringements. Raise taxes across the board. Invade Syria. Why not just gift Iran with a couple dozen nukes? But, cower before China and invite them to invade Taiwan.
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the media WILL NEVER COVER IT the way you’re presenting it..aka the truth
If she lets Joe Groper/Sniffer he might.
Why will they have a hard time being re-elected? They perfected the steal and it was declared legal by every court in the US!
Commies R Us.
It is perfected with House bill H.R.1. Elections are a thing of history.
1. End US energy independence
2. Allow trannys to serve in the military
3. Open the border
4. End the death penalty
5. Finance terror via Iran...again.
6. Burn my tax money via the Paris climate scam
7. Burn my tax money via the WHO
8. Impeach Trump even though he’s now a private citizen
9. Disbar Rudy Giuliani for even suggesting election fraud
10. Lock in election fraud so these psychopaths can stay in power forever........
Priorities, priorities.
First the domestic terrorists will get their death row seats commuted and then as Carter, Clinton, and Biden did, they will be released from prison altogether.
“State-sanctioned murder is not justice,”
But state approved murder of the unborn is just fine. Kill the innocent, let the guilty go free.
How their dark master intended
it to be.
Don’t forget, lay off thousands of high-paying pipefitter jobs by cancelling Keystone, give billions to big pharma by eliminating Trumps EO on lowering prices on Epipens and insulin, and more.
Joe called a Lid come back later ,LOL
Yep, knew it. Bald head and drawn in eyebrows to boot.
The doddering old fool will sign any paper that's shoved in front of him even tp.
It reminds me of Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” where common criminals to actual murderers are treated far better and more fairly than political prisoners.
Leftists in general don’t believe in Crime and Punishment, because in their pathetic Utopia, there are no criminals, only people who were not given all the things in life to keep them from involuntarily becoming criminals, and they need to be given those things, so they become part of society.
We understand the criminality exists because it is part of human nature, and in our view, they bear responsibility for their actions.
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