Tuesday, January 07, 2025

2 Death Row Inmates Reject Biden's Commutation of Sentences

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden -- a move that spares them from the death chamber -- have taken an unusual stance: They're refusing to sign paperwork accepting his clemency action.

Posted by gracieamazed at 08:30 AM | 8 COMMENTS | permalink

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A pair of inmates on death row are thumbing their noses at President Joe Biden's commutations of their sentences.

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-- Raw Story (@rawstory.com) January 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM

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... They're refusing to sign paperwork accepting his clemency action. ...

The men believe that having their sentences commuted would put them at a legal disadvantage as they seek to appeal their cases based on claims of innocence. ...

Yup.

If you accept clemency (pardon) you are effectively admitting your guilt.

So, these two inmates still want their legal options open because they believe they are innocent.

An Oklahoma judge ruled a man who spent 48 years in prison for murder is innocent (2023)
www.npr.org

Finally vindicated
www.hoganlovells.com

... DNA evidence exonerated the half-brothers in 2014. ...

City in Oklahoma Agrees to Pay $7.15 Million to Glynn Simmons, Exonerated After 48 Years in Prison (August 2024)
deathpenaltyinfo.org


I could go on ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-06 08:48 PM

Lewzer will kill them first.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-06 08:54 PM

Gary Gilmore. Nine months from crime to punishment. Unreal in retrospect.

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-01-06 09:56 PM

Gary Gilmore

At least his eyes are doing good...
www.youtube.com

#4 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-01-07 09:36 AM

If I were in a situation where I had been convicted of a crime and sentenced to death, I'd take the sentence. Death seems far easier than life in prison.

#5 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-01-07 11:23 AM

Death seems far easier than life in prison.

#5 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

Death is the easy way out. But why look a gift horse in the mouth?

I would not trust that I would get justice from the Trumpy DOJ as far as I could throw it.

Remember the Central Park 5? The Exonerated Five?

Trumpy would hang them all right now in that park in front of everybody if he could somehow manage it.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-07 11:35 AM

Thread has zero to do with Trump. Yet out of 6. Comments Trump gets brought in on two of them.

You people need to get a grip.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-07 11:46 AM

You people need to get a grip.

#7 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Indeed. I would suggest everyone strap in and hold on tight.

Version 2.0 of Mr Toads Wild Ride is about to begin.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-07 11:55 AM

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