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Outgoing Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia ripped into Joe Biden in a series of social media posts on Thursday.
Machin, 77, a longtime moderate Democrat who flipped to Independent earlier this year, did not run for re-election, so his term in office will end at the beginning of January.
He hotly condemned Biden for commuting the death sentences of 37 murders on federal death row recently, reducing their sentences to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Manchin noted that he had met with the parents Samantha Burns, a 19-year-old college student who was kidnapped from a West Virginia mall parking lot and killed in November 2002.
The two men convicted of killing Burns were both among the 37 murderers who Biden removed from death row.
Manchin released the following statement:
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. (1/3)
Particularly since Samantha’s family wrote letters to President Biden & the Department of Justice, pleading for them not to do this, but their concerns were unheard. I can’t imagine the grief that Kandi and John Burns are reliving and dealing with during the holiday season. (2/3)
As their U.S. Senator and a father, I want to express my deepest sympathy for their continued suffering. Please know that Samantha will forever be in our prayers. (3/3)
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. (1/3)
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) December 26, 2024
As their U.S. Senator and a father, I want to express my deepest sympathy for their continued suffering. Please know that Samantha will forever be in our prayers. (3/3)
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) December 26, 2024
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Meet Chadrick Fulks and Brandon Basham. After breaking out of prison, they r*ped and k*lled Samantha Burns and Alice Donovan.
Biden just took these criminals off death row. pic.twitter.com/SWXA80OURO
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