Two days before Christmas 2024, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates. Five of these had murdered children; several had murdered multiple people and on separate occasions.
Among those whose death sentence was commuted was Thomas Sanders, who on Sept. 8, 2010, in Louisiana kidnapped a 12-year-old girl, shot her, and slit her throat. This atrocity occurred only days after the girl was held captive and forced to witness Sanders’ murder her own mother.
Another whose death sentence was commuted was Jorge Avila-Torrez, who in 2005 in north Chicago sexually assaulted and stabbed to death two girls, an eight and nine-year-old. Four years later, Avila-Torrez assaulted a 20-year-old woman and naval officer in Northern Virginia, strangling her to death in her own barracks.
Yet another recipient of Biden’s Christmas package was Kaboni…
