'Horribly misguided': Outgoing senator blasts Biden as he heads out the door
Raw StoryPresident Joe Biden's decision to commute the death penalty sentences of 37 inmates was met with fierce backlash on Thursday from outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin. Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks escaped from a Kentucky jail in 2002 and launched into a nearly three-week crime spree, abducting and killing 19-year-old Samantha Burns, a Marshall University student, from a mall in West Virginia. On Dec. 23, after reportedly meeting with Pope Francis, who prayed for the commutations of all federal death row inmates, Biden commuted the death sentences of Basham and Fulks to life in prison without the possibility of parole, along with dozens of others. "After speaking to Samantha Burns’ parents, I believe it is my duty to speak on their behalf and say President Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences for the two men convicted in her brutal murder is horribly misguided and insulting," he said.
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