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Federal death row inmates whose lives were saved by President Biden after commuting their sentences they have killed victims in every facet of American society, from a sailor to children as young as 8 years old.
Biden announced Monday that he commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole because he is “more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at federal”. ”
“Make no mistake: I condemn these killers, I grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and I grieve for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden added. “I cannot in good conscience stand back and let a new administration resume the executions I stopped.”
Among those who have been saved is Jorge Avila-Torrez, a Navy veteran was found guilty of killing Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Amanda Snell inside her barracks in Arlington, Virginia, in July 2009.
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Federal prosecutors said Avila-Torrez confessed to an inmate that he “entered Snell’s room through her unlocked door, jumped on her as she slept in bed, tied her wrists with the power cord of her laptop and strangled her with the rest of the cable.”
Then, years later, Avila-Torrez pleaded guilty to stabbing 8-year-old Laura Hobbs and 9-year-old Krystal Tobias on Mother’s Day 2005 in Zion, Illinois, and a judge told her that he was a “serial killer”. ”, according to The Associated Press.
Krystal Tobias, 9, left, and her friend Laura Hobbs, 8, who were killed by Jorge Avila-Torrez in Zion, Illinois, in May 2005. Navy veteran Jorge Avila-Torrez, who pleaded guilty to killing Tobias and Hobbs, was a friend of Tobias’ older brother at the time of his death. (Zion Police Department/Getty Images)
Another prisoner spared by Biden is Daryl Lawrence, who was convicted of killing Columbus police officer Bryan Hurst in 2005.
The Justice Department, which posthumously awarded Hurst the Medal of Valor, he said he worked in a special uniformed service at a bank when a masked gunman entered and the two exchanged fire.
“Despite being fatally wounded, Hurst maneuvered around the counter and fired at the suspect before he collapsed. Authorities arrested the gunman several days later when he sought medical attention at a Washington hospital , DC,” he added. “Officer Hurst’s quick action, exceptional courage and persistence protected the lives of many people at the bank.”
Thomas Sanders also will not face the federal death penalty despite being found guilty of the “brutal kidnapping and murder” of 12-year-old Lexis Roberts in 2010.
In that case, prosecutors said Sanders was dating Roberts’ mother, Suellen Roberts, who he fatally shot in the head near Interstate 40 in Arizona during a trip to a wildlife park near the Grand Canyon during the Labor Day weekend. He then forced Lexis into a vehicle and held her captive as she traveled east.
Thomas Sanders and Suellen Roberts, 31, the mother of Lexis Roberts, 12, in undated photos provided by the FBI. Sanders was found guilty of killing Roberts in Arizona in 2010 and then kidnapping and murdering Lexis days later. (F.B.I.)
“Sanders drove several days across the country before murdering Lexis Roberts in a wooded area in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana,” he said. the Justice Department said. “Evidence at trial established that Sanders shot Lexis Roberts four times, slit her throat and left her body in the woods where a hunter found her body on October 8, 2010.”
Other inmates who were once on federal death row include Alejandro Umana, an MS-13 gang member who fatally shot the brothers Ruben and Manuel Garcia Salinas at a restaurant in Greensboro, North Carolina, in December 2007 “after they ‘disrespected’ their band’s signs by calling them ‘fake'”. according to federal prosecutors.
Anthony Battle, who killed prison guard D’Antonio Andrew Washington with a ball hammer inside a maximum security unit at an Atlanta facility in 1994, has also been spared.
D’Antonio Correctional Officer Andrew Washington was murdered by inmate Anthony Battle at USP Atlanta in 1994. (Federal Bureau of Prisons/Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Justice)
Amnesty International USA, a supporter of Biden’s decision, said Monday that “the death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment” and that Biden’s move is “a great moment for human rights.”
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“With the stroke of a pen, the president closes his legacy as a leader who stands for racial justice, humanity and morality.” added Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “This will undoubtedly be one of the crowning achievements of the Biden presidency.”
