Biden commutes sentence of serial killer who raped and murdered 2 little girls along with 36 other death row killers



President Joe Biden has granted clemency to some horrible felons but apparently saved the worst for last.

The White House announced Monday that the 82-year-old Democrat is commuting the sentences of 37 convicts on federal death row. Rather than die for ghastly crimes against children, U.S. service members, immigrants, police, prison guards, and others, the convicts will get to continue living at taxpayers' expense in prison.

Among the convicts Biden has spared from the accountability sought by judges and juries is Jorge Avila-Torrez, a "serial killer of the highest degree" who kidnapped, raped, and brutally murdered two little girls, Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9, in 2005. The beneficiary of Biden's commutation not only subjected the girls to nightmarish sexual torture but stabbed them repeatedly — Hobbs 20 times, including in her eyes, and Tobias 11 times.

Avila-Torrez also murdered 20-year-old U.S. Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in 2009 and raped and nearly killed another woman in 2009.

The man whose sentence Biden commuted ultimately shot the little girl four times, slit her throat, then dumped her body in the woods.

Biden also commuted the sentence of Thomas Sanders. A federal jury in Louisiana announced in 2014 that Sanders should be put to death for murdering Suellen Roberts and her 12-year-old daughter, Lexis Roberts, in the fall of 2010.

After two months of dating, Sanders took Suellen Roberts and her daughter on a trip over the Labor Day weekend to a wildlife park near the the Grand Canyon. On the way home, he took a deadly detour, driving his victims to a remote location in the desert, where he shot Suellen Roberts in the head in front of her daughter, then kept Lexis Roberts captive for several days.

The man whose sentence Biden commuted ultimately shot the little girl four times, slit her throat, then dumped her body in the woods, where it was later found by a hunter. According to the Justice Department, Lexis Roberts' throat was slashed with such force that the knife left marks on the inside of her spinal cord.

Iouri Mikhel was also among the names of those whose sentences Biden commuted. Mikhel, a serial killer who immigrated to the U.S. from Russia, was sentenced to death in 2007 for kidnapping and savagely murdering five people.

After kidnapping their victims, Mikhel and his comrade, Jurijus Kadamovas, reportedly extorted money from their families and friends. Despite having received millions in ransom funds, the duo killed their captives anyway, then dumped them in a reservoir near Yosemite National Park.

Daryl Lawrence, another murderer who will now avoid the death penalty, killed Columbus Police Officer Bryan Hurst during a bank robbery in 2005.

The White House's list of individuals now receiving commuted sentences is full of names of murderers convicted for similarly ghastly crimes.

Biden, a longtime champion of abortion, apparently believes the death penalty for murderous child rapists and cop killers is unconscionable, stating that the commutations were guided by his "conscience" and experience as a "public defender."

"These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder," said Biden.

In early 2021, the Biden Department of Justice halted federal executions. Attorney General Merrick Garland stated at the time, "The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States, but is also treated fairly and humanely."

Trump indicated in his speech announcing his 2024 presidential campaign that he saw utility in the death penalty, particularly for drug pushers and human traffickers. Leftist activists have vowed to fight the incoming administration on the issue.

Biden noted Monday, "I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted."

Despite letting dozens of murderers off easy, Biden suggested that he condemns them, "grieve[s] for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache[s] for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss."

The White House stated that "Biden has dedicated his career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system. He believes that America must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level, except in cases of terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder — which is why today's actions apply to all but those cases."

The three murderers who remain on death row are Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who shot up the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015; and Robert Bowers, the terrorist who executed the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in 2018.

Biden, whose approval rating is at a record low, kicked off his pardons by granting his felonious son Hunter Biden a "full and unconditional" pardon. He followed up the controversial pardon with thousands more, in one instance commuting the sentence of a disgraced former comptroller who stole $53.7 million from her struggling Illinois city.

While the backlash on the left over Biden's pardons has been mild, establishmentarians and radicals appear apoplectic over Trump's proposed pardons of peaceful Jan. 6 protesters.

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Ohio mom who abandoned her baby to go on a 10-day vacation gets life without parole: 'The ultimate betrayal'



An Ohio mother went on a 10-day summer vacation in June 2023. Rather than bring her 16-month-old daughter Jailyn along, Kristel Candelario, 32, decided instead to leave the baby behind to fend for herself in a dirty playpen.

Jailyn died a slow, painful death, losing nearly half her body weight before succumbing to starvation and dehydration.

The victim's cruel and callous mother pleaded guilty on Feb. 22 to one count of aggravated murder and one count of endangering children.

The Associated Press reported that Candelario claimed at her sentencing Monday that God and Jailyn have forgiven her. She received no such forgiveness from County Common Pleas Court Judge Brendan Sheehan.

"Just as you didn't let Jailyn out of her confinement, so too you should spend the rest of your life in a cell without freedom," Sheehan said Monday. "The only difference will be, the prison will at least feed you and give you liquid that you denied her."

The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office indicated that Candelario left Jailyn alone and unattended at her home near Lorain Avenue and West 97th Street in Cleveland on June 6, then went gallivanting around Detroit and Puerto Rico. According to Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Anna Faraglia, Candelario had also left the baby alone for two days immediately before going on the vacation.

Candelario eventually made her way back home on June 16. Upon finding her baby dead and emaciated, the child-killer called police.

First responders found Jailyn "in a Pack-N-Play pen on a liner soiled with urine and feces with soiled blankets."

Candelario was subsequently arrested and held on a $1 million bond. She initially pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, and endangering children.

During the trial, Derek Smith, the child-killer's attorney, attempted to paint his client as an emotionally overburdened single mother of two who was "not thinking clearly." The attempt was wasted on all those confronted with the facts in court.

Dr. Elizabeth Mooney, the deputy Cuyahoga County medical examiner, testified in court Monday that the child weighed 20 pounds at her last doctor's visit in late spring. When Jailyn's body was recovered, it weighed 13 pounds, reported NBC News.

Mooney said Jailyn's death was "one of the most tragic and unfortunate cases I've had in my career thus far," noting that the baby likely suffered for an entire week before passing away.

Investigators indicated that Candelario attempted to mask the consequence of her actions, changing Jailyn's clothes just before first responders arrived. They nevertheless observed the feces in the baby's eyes and under her fingernails.

"The thought of this child dying every day while she's having fun — humanity can't stomach that," said Faraglia. "And those are the actions that need to be punished. She abandoned her daughter and left her for dead."

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley said in a statement that Jailyn was "a beautiful baby girl who was taken from this world due to her mother's unimaginable selfishness."

"The thought of going on vacation for 10 days and leaving your child to starve to death in her Pack-N-Play is a new low in parental care," added O'Malley.

Court TV reported that Faraglia asked the court to consider jail phone calls in which the child-killer allegedly indicated she had a "blast" while on vacation in Puerto Rico and made plans for what she might do when freed from prison.

Faraglia stressed that Candelario appeared unrepentant, quoting the child-killer as saying, "It's not like I did it intentionally. It's not like I picked up a gun or a bat or the girl bled."

The judge said when sentencing the child-killer in the death penalty state, "The bond between a mother and child is one of the purest and most sacred bonds between human beings. It's a relationship based on love, trust and unwavering protection. Yet, in a shocking betrayal of fundamental trust, you committed the ultimate act of betrayal, leaving your baby terrified, alone, unprotected to suffer what I heard was the most gruesome death imaginable."

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