on monday A spokesperson for President Donald Trump slammed President Biden’s decision. to commute the death sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, calling the move “a “Slapping the victim in the face their family and the people they love.”
In a brief statement, Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, addressed the different approaches to crimes between Biden and Trump.
“These people are among the worst murderers in the world. And Joe Biden’s abhorrent decision is a slap in the face to victims. their family and their loved ones,” he said in a statement. “President Trump stands for the rule of law. That will come back again when he returns to the White House. After he was elected with enormous power by the American people.”
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Social media erupted on Monday. After President Biden announced he would commute nearly all death sentences, (AP)
The White House announced that Biden commuted the death penalty to a life sentence without the possibility of parole on Monday. Among the 37 men’s victims were law enforcement officers, children and other prisoners.
“Biden’s decision is a slap in the face to victims and victims’ families who thought they would get justice,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., wrote on X.
Several other Republican lawmakers echoed the same reaction.
Biden believes the federal death penalty should be applied only to acts of terrorism and hate-motivated killings. The White House said
“When President Biden takes office His administration has temporarily suspended federal executions. And his actions today will prevent the next administration from carrying out his death sentence. This would not be conveyed under current policy and practice,” the White House said.
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The three federal prisoners not receiving the death penalty are Robert Bowers, who is responsible for the 2018 shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue that left 11 people dead; Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who murdered nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston; South Carolina in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who worked with his now-deceased brother to carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that left three people dead and hundreds injured.
Biden said the move would prevent the incoming Trump administration from carrying out executions.
“With a good conscience I cannot stand by and allow the new administration to carry out the executions I stopped,” he said.
The action comes after Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 prisoners held in their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. and pardoned another 40 people Including Hunter His son also–
As of Dec. 1, as of Sept. 13, Biden has pardoned a total of 65 people and commuted the sentences of 1,634 prisoners during his time as president. According to the Ministry of Justice
Hunter Biden smiles broadly as he leaves an Arby’s store in Santa Barbara on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. This is the first time President Joe’s son Biden has been photographed ever since he received a pardon from his father. (The Image Direct for Fox News Digital)
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“The president has issued more commutations at this point in his presidency than any previous officeholder. his first term at the same point,” a White House official said in an earlier statement.
Trump takes a tough stance on the death penalty. It had previously suggested that drug traffickers should be entitled to the highest punishment.
“We will ask everyone who sells drugs Got caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts,” Trump said earlier this year about the campaign trial. “Because it’s the only way.”
