Inmates who have obtained leniency will spend the rest of their days in prison
In his last days in administration, Donald Trump pardoned some of his partners, such as Roger Stone or Steve Bannon. Barack Obama, the transgender soldier Chelsea Manning, so disturbed by the belief he drew from his leaks to Wikileaks that he attempted suicide at least three times while in prison. George W. Bush, fourteen senior Reagan Executive officials and his father who participated in the plot with Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
Instead, Kate Brown, in her final days as governor of Oregon, announced yesterday that the death sentences of 17 individuals awaiting execution on death row will be commuted to life in prison. Thanks to this gesture, they will spend the rest of their days in prison, but will not have to worry about their last dinner.
“I always thought that taking another life was not the way to do justice,” the governor said, explaining her controversial decision. “The death penalty is dysfunctional and immoral. It’s never been done fairly in Oregon, in fact it’s been quite arbitrary, and that’s not how the criminal justice system should work.”
They were not the most benign cases and it was not easy to explain to the families of the victims. Among them are those of Mary Jame and her three children, murdered by her husband Christian Longo. That of the three-year-old girl who killed Tessylnn O’Cull in 1997 or that of the police officers killed in the bomb attack committed by Bruce Turnidge and his son Joshua, who have also been struck by life.
“I cannot put myself in the shoes of these victims,” the governor replied when asked. “What they went through is terrible and frightening, my heart hurts thinking about it, but at the same time I believe it is immoral that the government is also committed to executing people,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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