Democrat Oregon governor commutes death sentences for all 17 murderers on death row

With less than a month left in her term, Democrat Kate Brown used her executive clemency powers to commute the sentences for all 17 convicted murderers on the state's death row.

Families of the victims said they were 'horrified' and 'outraged.'

The murders are horrible.  One of the killers stabbed his 19-year-old female victim 37 times. Juries agreed and sentenced the killers to death.  But Dem governors blythely ignore juries, and the law, cuz...reasons.

Relatives of the victims are furious.  But with just a month left in her term, Brown couldn't care less.

A woman whose parents were both murdered asked whether "life in prison" would really mean that, or like other states would that leave open the possibility that the killers could be released?  She noted that Brown's commutation cunningly did NOT say "life without possibility of parole."

In her announcement Brown spewed a word-salad, saying "victims experience pain and uncertainty as they wait for decades while *individuals* sit on death row."

Oh, right: "Individuals" sit on death row, eh?  Not "murderers," cuz that would be too true, but merely "individuals."  Like valedictorians.  And "victims experience pain"?  Seems to me the victims were killed by the murderers.  

Hell, I'm surprised Brown didn't call the *killers* victims.

Brown added, "My hope is that this commutation will bring us a significant step closer to finality in these cases."  Snowflake, "finality" would be executing the killers.  But since it wasn't *you* whose parents or children were killed, you don't care that you reversed the law and the jury verdict.  The death penalty offends *you,* so you just ran over anyone who disagreed.  Cuz you're a damn Democrat, and like all your peers you feel entitled to issue any DECREE you like.

Republicans claimed Democrats like Brown have "consistently chosen criminals over victims."

One murderer killed his wife and their three children.  Another killed his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter.

Another killed the mother of his ex-girlfriend by beating her to death with a hammer and a baseball bat.

Another killed a convenience store clerk by driving a metal bar through her skull.  A second female victim survived despite being hit more than 50 times with a metal bar and losing nearly half her blood.

Another killed a security guard during a gun battle as the guard tried to pull a 9-year-old child out of the line of fire.

Another beat and raped a young woman, then strangled her with a bed sheet and set her body on fire.

Another stabbed two sisters.  One died, the other survived despite 17 stab wounds.

Ricardo Pineda Serrano fatally shot a woman and her sons.

Karl Terry hacked two brothers to death with a sword while they were sleeping on a birthday camping trip.  After being convicted and put on death row Terry decided to go tranny, changing his name to Tara Ellyssia Zyst, in hopes of generating enough sympathy to force his sentence to be commuted.

You'd think that anyone committed to the rule of law (Brown isn't) would have worked with the state legislature to abolish the death penalty.  But Dems think, "Why go to the trouble, and risk being defeated for re-election, when I can wait til my last month in office and just commute all the death sentences, eh?"
 
Some other Democrat-ruled states are moving away from the death penalty.  Three years ago California's Dem governor Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on executions and shut down the state's execution chamber at San Quentin, making it almost impossible for the death penalty to be re-started.

A year ago he ordered his lackeys to begin moving all condemned killers to other prisons--again for the sole purpose of making it harder to put things back again.

Brown's use of clemency isn't limited to killers:  During the Chyna virus plandemic Brown granted clemency to nearly 1,000 people convicted of murder, rape, manslaughter and assault.

Two district attorneys, along with family members of crime victims, sued the governor and other state officials to stop Brown's use of clemency, but the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that the clemencies were legal.

The DAs also objected to Brown's order allowing 73 people convicted of murder, assault, rape and manslaughter while younger than 18 to apply for early release.

In an ususually candid statement, Brown admitted that her latest wave of commutations were NOT "based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row."

Instead the erasing of the death sentences just reflected Brown's personal opposition to the death penalty, after juries convicted the killers and sentenced them in accordance with state law.  Cuz to Democrats, laws are merely suggestions that can be ignored when desired.

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