Paul Kamenar, NLPC Counsel:
At the urging of dozens of liberal, soft-on-crime activist groups, President Biden, who had a moratorium during his term in office on carrying out the federal death penalty as did his Attorney General Merrick Garland, saw fit to give a Christmas present to 37 vicious killers on death row by commuting their death sentence to prevent incoming President Trump from carrying out the just punishment.
Here is just a representative sampling of a few of them:
Thomas Sanders (in photo) was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old girl in 2010. Sanders murdered the child by shooting her four times, cutting her throat in the woods and dumping her body. A hunter later found her remains. A few days earlier, he had killed her mother.
Richard Allen Jackson was sentenced to death in 2001 for the murder of Karen Styles in the Pisgah National Forest near Asheville, North Carolina. Jackson purchased a rifle and ammunition, duct tape, batteries and a flashlight from a K-Mart near the site of the killing. He watched Karen Styles, a recent college graduate make her way down the trail for a jog,
He followed her down the trail, eventually pointing a gun at her head before covering her mouth and eyes with duct tape and taping her to a tree. Jackson raped Styles and shocked her with a stun gun multiple times near her pubic area. With the duct tape around her mouth loosened, Styles began to scream for help prompting Jackson to shoot her point-blank in the head. Still duct-taped to the tree, her body was found nearly a month later. After the killing, Jackson returned the rifle to K-Mart for a refund.
Alejandro Umaña, an MS-13 gang leader, shot and killed the two brothers at point blank range at a restaurant in Greensboro, North Carolina after he exchanged words with them. Umaña shot one brother in the head and the other in the chest, as well as one other person who survived. Umaña was also found guilty of other killings during the sentencing process and a coordinated attempt to kill witnesses and informants. According to the Justice Department Press Release in 2010:
“Violent gangs like MS-13 terrorize communities across this country. As the evidence in this case showed, murder and intimidation are a way of life for some members of this gang. Although there is no punishment that will bring back the lives taken by the defendant, this series of prosecutions of MS-13, and the punishments imposed, should make abundantly clear to gang members that we will not let them operate with impunity. As today’s sentence shows, their criminal actions have serious consequences.”
“These cases are graphic examples of why the death penalty, both at the federal and state level, is a just punishment for those who commit vicious and depraved killings,” said Paul Kamenar, NLPC’s counsel. “President Trump has pledged to carry out the federal death penalty as he did during his first term in office, including illegal immigrants who kill Americans,” Kamenar added.
