The clemency action applies to all federal death row inmates except three convicted of terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston marathon bombing attack; Dylann Roof, who shot dead nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Robert Bowers, who stormed a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers in 2018.

  • ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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    4 days ago

    Have you considered that the 3 he didn’t commute were chosen not because they deserve death, but are too dangerous to be set free?

    The Boston Marathon bomber and 2 people who attacked religious ceremonies. These are people who are more likely to go on and try again. And each of their crimes resulted in multiple deaths the first time.

    • Smoke@beehaw.org
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      Unless you think they’re particularly likely to escape, I don’t see the difference between death and life without parole as regards “too dangerous to set free”. The unabomber died in prison serving out that very sentence.