Victims’ Families And Friends Slam Biden For ‘Heartless Decision’ To Shield Child Murderer, Cop Killer From Death Row

Victims’ friends and family members condemned President Joe Biden’s decision Monday to commute the death sentences of criminals who murdered their loved ones.

Biden granted clemency to 37 men on death row convicted for brutal murders, including of children, reclassifying their sentences to life without parole.

Kathleen Zellner, an attorney who represented a father whose daughter was murdered by a criminal on death row, told the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation that Biden’s decision was “cruel.”

“How dare President Biden commute the death sentence of Jorge Aviia-Torrez who viciously sexually assaulted and killed my client, Jerry Hobbs’, 8 year old daughter Laura, her 9 year old best friend Krystal Tobias and 4 years later 20 year old Amanda Snell, a naval officer,” Zellner said in a statement to the DCNF.

Zellner represented Hobbs in a civil rights lawsuit against local authorities who wrongly accused him of murdering his own daughter and her friend. Hobbs was kept behind bars for five years before he was exonerated by DNA evidence revealing Torrez was the perpetrator.

“President Biden never reached out to Mr. Hobbs or his family to ask their opinion about commuting Torrez sentences,” Zellner continued. “This is a callous, cruel action by President Biden that reflects how out of touch he is with the American public. There is no justifiable reason for this heartless decision that was carried out recklessly and for the President’s own political agenda against the incoming administration.”