Victim’s shattered kin wants Biden to ‘explain to our faces’ stunning death-row Christmas clemency

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Posted on 12/24/2024 4:26:59 AM PST by Libloather

President Biden needs to explain his death-sentence commutations “to our faces,” says the furious brother of a young female naval officer murdered by one of the “despicable’’ clemency recipients.

“I’d rather see it go back to the way it was, where he was sentenced to death,” said Alex Snell, 42, of Jorge Avila-Torrez, who fatally strangled Snell’s 20-year-old sister, Amanda Snell, in her Arlington, Va., barracks in July 2009.

“He should have gotten that penalty,” Snell told The Post of the killer — who also sexually assaulted and murdered two little girls and raped a grad student.

In a sweeping act of clemency, Biden lowered the death-penalty sentences of 37 of the feds’ 40 current death-row inmates to life in prison without parole.

Snell said he was in “disbelief” when he learned Biden had rubbed salt in the wound of grieving families by issuing the commutations two days before Christmas — and that he’s “angry that justice is not being served.

“Why does he need to get special treatment? He’s just going to risk other people,” Snell said of Avila-Torrez.

“What justification does [Biden] have for doing this? I want to have him explain to us, to our faces, why he chose to give them mercy when they didn’t give other people mercy.”

The savagery of Avila-Torrez’s crimes stand out even among the roster of some of the nation’s worst offenders.

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Hussein still have a hand in this?

1 posted on 12/24/2024 4:26:59 AM PST by Libloather

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