Posted on 12/14/2022 6:40:45 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is commuting the sentences of all of the state’s 17 inmates awaiting execution, saying their death sentences will be changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Brown, a Democrat with less than a month remaining in office, said she was using her executive clemency powers to commute the sentences and that her order will take effect on Wednesday.
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people — even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
Rep. Vikki Breese-Iverson, leader of the minority Republicans in the Oregon House of Representatives, accused Brown of “a lack of responsible judgment.”
“Gov. Brown has once again taken executive action with zero input from Oregonians and the Legislature,” Breese-Iverson said in a statement. “Her decisions do not consider the impact the victims and families will suffer in the months and years to come. Democrats have consistently chosen criminals over victims.”
Oregon has not executed a prisoner since 1997. In Brown’s first news conference after becoming governor in 2015, she announced she would continue the death penalty moratorium imposed by her predecessor, former Gov. John Kitzhaber.
So far, 17 people have been executed in the U.S. in 2022, all by lethal injection and all in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Missouri and Alabama, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Dims love criminals. Victims have zero rights. 😡
I’m sure their victims will approve..................................
Repeal the 19th Amendment.
Might as well release them since we know they have a spark of goodness in there somewhere. 🤡🐂💩
Also Oregons Gov: “Abortion is health care, and no matter who you are or where you come from, Oregon doesn’t turn away anyone seeking health care.
This disgraceful Supreme Court decision will put lives at risk and strips away a constitutional right has been settled law for most of our lifetimes.”
Commit no crime, die. Commit crime, be prosecuted and convicted. Spared.
Ain’t Fraud by Mail wonderful.
“””Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is commuting the sentences of all of the state’s 17 inmates awaiting execution”””
Since Kate feels so strongly about this, why doesn’t she offer to pay the cost of housing these 17 death row inmates for the rest of their natural life.
That would be charitable.
Tomorrow they will be employed by the government as managers.
I’m sure she loves killing babies.
For justice, Better a visit to your Godfather than to the courts
yeah...they’ll get out and one of them will make the commie beyotch their next victim!
Inherent terms of the “social contract” are that the citizens surrender to a government their ability to seek revenge and individual justice for themselves and family members IN EXCHANGE for the government pursuing these aims.
When the government abdicates the terms of the terms of the contract, people will be free to again seek revenge and justice on their own terms. e.g. see Chicago gang killings
Abuse of power to commute sentences, turning it into a nullification of the death penalty.
They won’t take the life of criminals, but they will murder babies as if they were on a conveyor belt.
Leave the gun, take the cannoli...........
Another reason to consider is the cost to the state for all the appeals that prisoners get when they are sentenced to death. It is far cheaper to keep these criminals in jail for 30-50 years than pay for the States attorney to go to court multiple times during the appeals process.
A short jolt of D.C. or a lifetime of food,shelter,medical and entertainment all on the taxpayer. Which makes more sense?
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