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MichMan

(14,422 posts)
17. Do you think releasing the 4 below, after serving only several years behind bars, would be justice?
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 07:36 PM
Dec 2024
Dylann Roof — Roof was sentenced to death by a jury on January 10, 2017 for the race-related murders of nine parishioners at an historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The court formally imposed the death penalty on January 11.

Christopher Cramer and Ricky Fackrell — Cramer and Fackrell received jury verdicts of death on June 13, 2018, for the murder of a White prisoner in a federal penitentiary in Texas.

Brandon Council — Council was sentenced to death on October 3, 2019 by a jury in South Carolina for killing a teller and bank manager during the 2017 robbery of a CresCom bank.

Robert Bowers — Bowers was found guilty of all 63 federal charges related to his 2018 attack on the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting that resulted in 11 deaths and many more injuries. Attorneys for Mr. Bowers told jurors about his history of mental illness and brain impairment from childhood, including several suicide attempts and commitments to psychiatric facilities before the age of 13, and argued that he was too delusional to be eligible for the death penalty. On August 1, 2023 the jury unanimously recommended a death sentence, marking the first death sentence obtained under the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice.


Roof and Bowers would have served less than 1 year per victim. And you think they should just be released?

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This should include everyone on federal death row. Because they are definitely in the crosshairs. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2024 #1
Agree mvd Dec 2024 #6
Do you think releasing the 4 below, after serving only several years behind bars, would be justice? MichMan Dec 2024 #17
I think you mean commutation of their death sentences to life? maxsolomon Dec 2024 #20
I'd love to know who would reject them newdeal2 Dec 2024 #2
Trump's America will be like one of those third world shitholes where the ruling junta executes its opponents. sop Dec 2024 #3
Good, they should be far and wide. Think. Again. Dec 2024 #4
They better get a hustle on and move damn fast. There's judges, DAs, prosecutors, congresscritters... Hekate Dec 2024 #5
Don't discuss. DRAFT! rsdsharp Dec 2024 #7
It's a relief. Baitball Blogger Dec 2024 #8
Good! Good-Good-GOOD!!! calimary Dec 2024 #9
There is absolutely no downside. Bluetus Dec 2024 #30
Outstanding Mike 03 Dec 2024 #10
Cassidy Hutchinson needs a pardon as well. GigiLeigh Dec 2024 #25
We will not have a functional government for between 2-4 years. NotHardly Dec 2024 #11
Good. n/t PatrickforB Dec 2024 #12
Good ibegurpard Dec 2024 #13
Good. And certify the ERA Amendment, Hassler Dec 2024 #14
National Monuments can be un-designated on MFer's whims. maxsolomon Dec 2024 #21
Gold, lithium, oil, uranium are all possibilities Hassler Dec 2024 #24
Sure didn't look like it last time I was there. It's nearly all lava and basalt. maxsolomon Dec 2024 #32
At least they're talking about it. Demobrat Dec 2024 #15
Stopping MAGA Cirsium Dec 2024 #16
Do it! Bo Zarts Dec 2024 #18
Thank God ecstatic Dec 2024 #19
Not just that, putin-patel wants to destroy the FBI... Justice matters. Dec 2024 #27
Well, if he is going to do that, he doesn't have much time to do it. tornado34jh Dec 2024 #22
Start fucking printing. Those who want to reject do so at their own peril. Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2024 #23
Discuss no further, just do! Clouds Passing Dec 2024 #26
YeS! 4catsmom Dec 2024 #28
If anyone is bdamomma Dec 2024 #29
No skin off your back, Joe. Just fucking do it dalton99a Dec 2024 #31
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