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I'm sharing this Wall Street Journal editorial in its entirety so the members can understand the depravity of the people running our country. Biden is just the front man, the puppet. Even so, he is culpable for many of the disasters we now face, both domestic and international.
Krystal Tobias, age 9, and Laura Hobbs, 8, were riding their bikes in the Chicago suburb of Zion in 2005 when Jorge Avila-Torrez grabbed them, sexually assaulted them, and stabbed them to death.
Laura’s father, Jerry Hobbs, found the bodies of the girls in a public park and was accused of their murder. He spent five years in prison pending trial, while Mr. Avila-Torrez remained at large.
In 2009 Mr. Avila-Torrez, who had by then joined the Marines, murdered 20-year-old fellow Marine Amanda Jean Snell. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, he “jumped on her as she slept in her bed, bound her wrists with the power cord from her laptop computer and strangled her with the rest of the cord.”
A federal jury sentenced Mr. Avila-Torrez to death, taking into account his prior convictions for having kidnapped three young women in Arlington, Va., in 2010, “one of whom he raped, sodomized, strangled and left for dead.” He later pleaded guilty to the murder of the young girls in Zion.
Mr. Avila-Torrez is one of the 37 inmates whose federal death sentences were commuted to life in prison by President Biden on Monday. Capital punishment is a debatable question, and Mr. Biden cited his own “good conscience” Monday as justification for sparing the hangman. He said he couldn’t allow “a new administration to resume executions that I halted.”
But why does Mr. Biden think his conscience is superior to those of the jury, or for that matter of the larger society and Congress that have reserved the death penalty for especially heinous crimes?
Consider Anthony Battle, who killed an Atlanta prison guard with a hammer while serving a life sentence for raping and killing his wife. As the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals described it, in 1994 correctional officer D’Antonio Washington was “found lying on the floor of Cellhouse C with blood spurting out of his head.” Mr. Battle was found standing near a vending machine where he had hidden the hammer he used for the murder.
How can society protect prison guards if inmates with life sentences can kill them without risk of death row? Juries found Mr. Biden’s commuted killers deserved the ultimate punishment for their crimes, which aren’t in dispute.
Meanwhile, Mr. Biden has left the death penalty on the table for three killers who murdered Jewish congregants at a synagogue, African-American worshippers at a church, and innocents at the Boston Marathon. These killers still get the chair, but multiple child killer Jorge Avila-Torrez doesn’t? Mr. Biden’s inconsistent conscience is an affront to the victims, and it has not made the justice system better or the country safer.
Krystal Tobias, age 9, and Laura Hobbs, 8, were riding their bikes in the Chicago suburb of Zion in 2005 when Jorge Avila-Torrez grabbed them, sexually assaulted them, and stabbed them to death.
Laura’s father, Jerry Hobbs, found the bodies of the girls in a public park and was accused of their murder. He spent five years in prison pending trial, while Mr. Avila-Torrez remained at large.
In 2009 Mr. Avila-Torrez, who had by then joined the Marines, murdered 20-year-old fellow Marine Amanda Jean Snell. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, he “jumped on her as she slept in her bed, bound her wrists with the power cord from her laptop computer and strangled her with the rest of the cord.”
A federal jury sentenced Mr. Avila-Torrez to death, taking into account his prior convictions for having kidnapped three young women in Arlington, Va., in 2010, “one of whom he raped, sodomized, strangled and left for dead.” He later pleaded guilty to the murder of the young girls in Zion.
Mr. Avila-Torrez is one of the 37 inmates whose federal death sentences were commuted to life in prison by President Biden on Monday. Capital punishment is a debatable question, and Mr. Biden cited his own “good conscience” Monday as justification for sparing the hangman. He said he couldn’t allow “a new administration to resume executions that I halted.”
But why does Mr. Biden think his conscience is superior to those of the jury, or for that matter of the larger society and Congress that have reserved the death penalty for especially heinous crimes?
Consider Anthony Battle, who killed an Atlanta prison guard with a hammer while serving a life sentence for raping and killing his wife. As the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals described it, in 1994 correctional officer D’Antonio Washington was “found lying on the floor of Cellhouse C with blood spurting out of his head.” Mr. Battle was found standing near a vending machine where he had hidden the hammer he used for the murder.
How can society protect prison guards if inmates with life sentences can kill them without risk of death row? Juries found Mr. Biden’s commuted killers deserved the ultimate punishment for their crimes, which aren’t in dispute.
Meanwhile, Mr. Biden has left the death penalty on the table for three killers who murdered Jewish congregants at a synagogue, African-American worshippers at a church, and innocents at the Boston Marathon. These killers still get the chair, but multiple child killer Jorge Avila-Torrez doesn’t? Mr. Biden’s inconsistent conscience is an affront to the victims, and it has not made the justice system better or the country safer.
